On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 11:37:47AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Shachar Or wrote: > >>> >>> there is both a gspca-source and gspca-modules-... packages. IIRC, the >>> spca5xx is being replaced upstream... >> >> All this talk about spca... Isn't there a quickcam specific driver? I know >> there is... qc-usb-source is the package. I used for some logitech quickcam >> some time ago. >>> >> > > That's what I thought, when I was reading the list of packages found by > Synaptic, when I searched for webcam. > > However, ... we are all of differing levels of Debian system > administration competency, and I rely on packages being "ready to go" - > either using Synaptic to download and install a package, and then > expecting for it to be ready to use, or, using apt-get install, or, > downloading a package and using dpkg -i . But, not having to compile and > build a package. > > I found > "The qc-usb-source package is a skeleton for creating a kernel module > to drive Logitech's QuickCam Express webcam and other webcams with > similar chipsets." > and > "qc-usb-utils > Utility programs for the qc-usb kernel module > Utilities to tweak paramters of your QuickCam Express or similar > webcam. These programs are completely useless without a > qc-usb-modules package." > > That sounds like that needs a kernel build to use - much too advanced > for me. no no not at all. you can use module assistant, I'd bet.I just checked, it is one of the packages you can build with module-assistant. at a minimum, you can do: aptitude install module-assistant m-a update m-a prepare m-a a-i qc-usb if all goes well, you'll be done. module-assistant also has a curses interface you can play with. Be sure to check out /usr/share/doc/module-assistant/HOWTO it's very easy. A
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