OK. I Manually downloaded the gspca-source module and did 'm-a
update' and when I went through the steps it seemed to build OK, but
did not load. Silly me! Once I unplugged the camera and re-plugged
it in, the driver loaded just like it ought to. At least is seems to
have done so. Running lsmod shows the gspca module and a few other
new modules. Dmesg shows:
usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Linux video capture interface: v2.00
/usr/src/modules/gspca/gspca_core.c: USB SPCA5XX camera found. (SPCA501 )
/usr/src/modules/gspca/gspca_core.c: [spca5xx_probe:3887] Camera type
YUYV
/usr/src/modules/gspca/gspca_core.c: [spca5xx_getcapability:1165] maxw
640 maxh 480 minw 160 minh 120
usbcore: registered new interface driver gspca
/usr/src/modules/gspca/gspca_core.c: gspca driver 01.00.04 registered
So my drivers seem to be loaded. Now, how do I access the camera, so
that I can capture an image to be processed? I am currently thinking
of using opencv through either C/C++ or Python. How would I access
the camera to generate an image (probably jpeg) that I could then save
to disk or, preferably, pipe to opencv?