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! >> >> >>-- >>To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> 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? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
