On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 02:45:08AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 16:02:00 -0800 > Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 06:48:36PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > > On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 20:09:37 +0000 > > > ArameFarpado <a-farpado.spam@netcabo.pt> wrote: > > > > > > > Celejar wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > Does anyone have any experience with or advice about using the "Creative > > > > > Live! Cam Video IM Pro" on linux? The vendor / device id is 041e:4055. > > > > > This fellow [0] seems to think it can't be done. Is that indeed the case? > > > > > > > > > > Celejar > > > > > > > > > > [0] http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=3970 > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html > > > > > > I tried both spca5xx and gspca from the official repo. Both loaded fine but neither picked up the camera, which I assume means that it (they) is the wrong driver. The camera model is also not listed here [0]. Do you know for a fact that gspca works for this model? Will the source tarball from your link be any more effective? > > > > FWIW, I recently downloaded and installed the tarball and its > > definitely got support for more cameras. To make installing easy, I > > downloaded gspca-source from debian and unpacked it. Then I replaced > > copied over from the upstream tarball every file that matched the > > debian source. Finally, I used module-assistant to build and install > > it. this was easy, worked just fine and I see no issues. > > > > hth > > > > A > > Thanks - I tried your suggestion but couldn't get it to work properly; > I must have been doing something wrong. I bit the bullet and installed > the kernel sources and built the module straight from the source > tarball, which worked fine, but I still don't see a message that the > driver is picking up the camera (and no /dev/video* devices). I guess > this means I'm out of luck? > well, between the above and the fact that the vendor:product id's are not listed means you're probably out of luck. Find afriend with windows and trade cameras with them. A
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