On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 05:53:59PM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Fri August 8 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > wow. that looks kind of like there might be a problem in the > > driver. If you can't cat from the video device, then there's something > > seriously wrong. I highly recommend you check out the gspca drivers > > instead of the spca5xx-source packages. I have used the gspca drivers > > without difficulty, though there was no sound implemented for my > > particular camera. ymmv. > > > > there is both a gspca-source and gspca-modules-... packages. IIRC, the > > spca5xx is being replaced upstream... > > but I already have gspca, but no modules.. > > ~$ dpkg --list |grep spca > ii gspca 20080524-1 > Package created with checkinstall 1.6.1 > ii gspca-source 01.00.20-1 > source for the gspca v4l kernel module > I'm sorry, I thought I remembered someone saying they were using spca5xx. hmmm... I'm no real help then. It looks like you've installed from upstream though, perhaps? Maybe try the debian gspca-modules packages and see what that gets you. That's all I've got. A
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