Re: Intel Deluxe PC Camera

[Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com>]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 08:34:20AM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
>   
> > Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >     
> > > On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 08:27:53AM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> > >   
> > >       
> > > > On Sunday 04 November 2007 07:35, John Schmidt wrote:
> > > >     
> > > >         
> > > > > On Sunday 04 November 2007, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> > > > >       
> > > > >           
> > > > > > It looks like the driver module that I need is spca501.  There is a
> > > > > > source package for Etch:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >     spca5xx-source
> > > > > >
> > > > > >         
> > > > > >             
> > > > > Do this:
> > > > >
> > > > > sudo m-a
> > > > >
> > > > > It will put up a dialogue box, and then you need to first prepare the 
> > > > > build
> > > > > by downloading the kernel headers.  Then choose select and check the
> > > > > spca5xx-source, and it should download it for you.  Then build it and
> > > > > install it.  These are all menu selectable items in module assitant.
> > > > >
> > > > >       
> > > > >           
> > > > Unless I am mistaking, I read somewhere that spca5xx was for kernel up to 
> > > > 2.6.11, for later kernel you need gspca-sources.
> > > >     
> > > >         
> > > You are correct.
> > >   
> > >       
> > So, do I follow the instructions that John gave above and substitute 
> > gspca-source for spca5xx-source?
> >     
>
> yep, but take note of John's continuation of this thread. I'm not sure
> what he'd doing there, but it may apply to your situation.
>
> A
>   
Well, I tried to follow the above instructions, but...

I didn't have the kernel headers for my 2.6.16 kernel and they do not 
seem to be available in the Etch repository.  I took this as a sign that 
it was time to upgrade my kernel and upgraded to 2.6.22-3-k7 from 
backports.  Then I reran module-assistant.

This time, m-a found and downloaded the kernel headers.  I then selected 
the module to compile.  The gspca-source was not listed, so I used the 
spca5xx-source.  When I tried to build the sources, however, the build 
failed.  The logfile contained nothing but the date and time, so I have 
no specific errors to report.  It may be that the problem is using 
spca5xx-source instead of gspca-source, but that was not listed as an 
option.  If I download it manually, might m-a find it and allow me to 
use it.

Any ideas on what I should try next?

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Marc Shapiro
mshapiro_42@yahoo.com