On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 10:47:43PM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: > I'm trying to set up a 'Z-Star Microeletronics Corp.' webcam in this > sarge machine (name provided by lsusb, together with '0ac8:305b'. The > driver's website http://mxhaard.free.fr claims this is a supported > camera). After some googling, I downloaded the spca5xx driver and > compiled it with module-assistant. Everything went ok, and modprobe > inserts the driver with no apparent problems. The thing is, accessing > the camera causes the whole system to freeze. Some tutorials suggest its > a gcc version problem between the kernel gcc and the driver gcc. > Relevant modules loaded are: > spca5xx > videodev > v4l1-compat > v4l2-common > usbcore I don't know much, but how are you accessing the camera? what if you do a cat /dev/video[0] > testvid does that cause a freeze? if not, can you play that file in mplayer or xine or whatever? this method sometimes works with tuner cards for example just to see if the thing is working. I just tried it with my webcam and it didn't really work, in that I got no playable video (probably due to compression), but at least it shows that there is info coming from the camera. > > Other people seem to be using this webcam model quite successfully, with > various distros, so I believe its some troubleshootable thing which I am > missing badly. > Someone help? I think that you can get spca5xx binaries from debian, its the gspca that needs compiling... at least in sid its spca5xx-modules-<kernel> A > Also, how do I figure which gcc version my kernel was compiled with? Its > a 2.6.8-3-k7 stock. > My gcc version is 3.3.5. Is that correct? > > thanks! > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > >
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