Re: setting a spca5xx webcam under sarge?

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:

On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 10:47:43PM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote:


I'm trying to set up a 'Z-Star Microeletronics Corp.' webcam in this
sarge machine (name provided by lsusb, together with '0ac8:305b'. The
driver's website http://mxhaard.free.fr claims this is a supported
camera). After some googling, I downloaded the spca5xx driver and
compiled it with module-assistant. Everything went ok, and modprobe
inserts the driver with no apparent problems. The thing is, accessing
the camera causes the whole system to freeze. Some tutorials suggest its
a gcc version problem between the kernel gcc and the driver gcc.
Relevant modules loaded are:
spca5xx
videodev
v4l1-compat
v4l2-common
usbcore



I don't know much, but how are you accessing the camera? what if you
do a

cat /dev/video[0] > testvid

does that cause a freeze?

if not, can you play that file in mplayer or xine or whatever?

this method sometimes works with tuner cards for example just to see
if the thing is working. I just tried it with my webcam and it didn't
really work, in that I got no playable video (probably due to
compression), but at least it shows that there is info coming from the
camera.




Other people seem to be using this webcam model quite successfully, with
various distros, so I believe its some troubleshootable thing which I am
missing badly.
Someone help?




I think that you can get spca5xx binaries from debian, its the gspca
that needs compiling... at least in sid its spca5xx-modules-<kernel>


A




Also, how do I figure which gcc version my kernel was compiled with? Its
a 2.6.8-3-k7 stock.
My gcc version is 3.3.5. Is that correct?

thanks!


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Hi andrew,
I tested the camera with the utility from the driver author, spcaview
and spcagui. Cat'ing /dev/video1 (video0 is a bttv card) froze the
machine just the same.

So, the problem is with the driver?


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