Re: setting a spca5xx webcam under sarge?
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 10:47:43PM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote:
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>>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
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>I don't know much, but how are you accessing the camera? what if you
>do a
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>cat /dev/video[0] > testvid
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>does that cause a freeze?
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>if not, can you play that file in mplayer or xine or whatever?
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>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.
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>>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?
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>I think that you can get spca5xx binaries from debian, its the gspca
>that needs compiling... at least in sid its spca5xx-modules-<kernel>
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>>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?
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>>thanks!
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Hi andrew,
I tested the camera with the utility from the driver author, spcaview
and spcagui. Cat'ing /dev/video1 (video0 is a bttv card) froze the
machine just the same.
So, the problem is with the driver?
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