Re: problems with module-assistant and gspca

[Marcelo Chiapparini <marcelo.chiappa@gmail.com>]

Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 20:48:53 -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am running etch and I have a pleomax pwc-2100 webcam by Pixart Imaging  
> > Inc. The pwc-2100 doesn't run out the box. After googling a bit, I found  
> > that it needs the gspca module. I installed the gspca-source and  
> > followed the instructions in /usr/share/doc/gspca-source/readme.debian:
> >
> >   $ m-a prepare
> >   $ m-a a-i gspca
> >
> > the process ends with errors. Looking at the log file in the  
> > module-assistant log file viewer, I found the following lines which  
> > report errors:
> >
> > scripts/Makefile.build:46: *** CFLAGS was changed in  
> > "/usr/src/modules/gsp   (<-----line is out of margins here)
> > make[3]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/gspca] Error 2
> > make[3]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26-bpo.1-686'
> > make[2]: *** [default] Error 2
> > make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/modules/gspca'
> > make[1]: *** [binary-modules] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/modules/gspca'
> > make: *** [kdist-build] Error 2
> >
> >
> > I never used module-assistant before. Any help will be very much  
> > appreciated!
>
> Which version of gspca-source do you use? It seems that you are running
> a backported 2.6.26 kernel, so maybe you need to use the newer
> gspca-source package from Lenny. (Unfortunately, a backported package of
> the newer gspca-source version does not seem to be available.)

Hi Florian,

I have returned to the linux-image-2.6.18-686 kernel shipped with etch, 
and installed gspca-modules-2.6-686 accordingly.

Now, my webcam, a Pleomax, is detected by the system:

marcelo@yggdrasill:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 093a:2600 Pixart Imaging, Inc.

the gspca module is supposed to work with Pixart devices:

"The gpsca video for linux (v4l) driver, provides support for webcams 
and digital cameras based on the spca5xx range of chips manufactured by
SunPlus, Sonix, Z-star, Vimicro, Conexant, Etoms, Mars-semi, Pixart and
Transvision."

the gspca module is loaded using modprobe:

marcelo@yggdrasill:~$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
gspca                 600336  0
videodev               21120  1 gspca
v4l1_compat            12036  1 videodev
v4l2_common            20448  1 videodev


but still, skype and ekiga are not able to detect any webcam present...

Any help will be very welcome!

Regards

Marcelo

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Marcelo Chiapparini