Re: problems with module-assistant and gspca

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 19:40:14 -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini 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 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...

The first thing to check is if the video device nodes were created when
the modules were loaded. Post the output of:

ls -l /dev/video*

grep -E 'gspca|videodev|v4l' /var/log/syslog

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