responses interespersed below On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Timothy A. Chagnon wrote:
> I picked up this exact same camera (logitech quickcam chat) about a > month ago. I've got it running under Ubuntu 5.10, but had to manually > compile and install the module. The default one that comes with the > Ubuntu kernel doesn't work. Some v4l call gives me a kernel panic. > The spca5xx version I have working is 20051212. no kernel panics; spca5xx version is 20060101 > > Although, I think even the old version still got a device at > /dev/video0. Silly question but when you plug in the camera, do you > get syslog messages telling you it correctly identified the device and > installed the spca5xx module? from /var/log/messages: Jan 17 15:59:09 kenobi kernel: Linux video capture interface: v1.00 Jan 17 15:59:09 kenobi kernel: Colour QuickCam for Video4Linux v0.05 no mention of spca5xx in /var/log/messages; no mention of it in /var/log/syslog, either. > > If the version of spca5xx that gentoo has is not very new, the USB ID > for these camera's might not be registered to the module maybe? Also, > IIRC mplayer has some issues with this v4l device. I know xawtv and > gnomemeeting work. latest (not stable) version of spca5xx; I would guess if yours works, mine should work. The problem seems to be a disconnect between the video device and the hardware!? Is that the spca5xx layer, or (my guess) the videodev layer? > > Tim > > On 1/17/06, William Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > any other suggestions? > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
