HOWTO: Making ICM532 chipset based webcams work on breezy

[arnieboy]

Some of you probably might have noticed ICM532 chipset based webcams freezing on breezy (for a comprehensive list refer to: http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html ) when u turn on gnomemeeting or camorama. Herez the fix for that:
FOLLOW ALL THE STEPS! DONT TAKE SHORTCUTS OR MAKE MODIFICATIONS IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING
You need to do the following step by step

FOR DAPPER and EDGY
If you are on Dapper or Edgy do the following instead of the above:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r` build-essential
wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20060501.tar.gz
tar xvfz spca5xx-20060501.tar.gz
cd spca5xx-20060501
make
sudo modprobe -r spca5xx
sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx*
sudo make install
sudo modprobe spca5xx

FOR BREEZY

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r` build-essential gcc-3.4
wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20060501.tar.gz
tar xvfz spca5xx-20060501.tar.gz
cd spca5xx-20060501
sudo make CC=gcc-3.4
sudo modprobe -r spca5xx
sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx*
sudo make install
sudo modprobe spca5xx
Now you should be all set to use ur ICM532 chipset based webcam.

[steil]

Nice How-To. Good Work arnieboy!

[arnieboy]

thanks :)

[steil]

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[arnieboy]

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[Koba]

ummm, i did EXACTLY what you said, every last letter, no errors at all, it was perfect, but gnome meeting freezes when i click "test" for my Creative Live! and yes Creative Live! is supported on spca5xx. any other programs i could use to test out my webcam? i can't get camorama going, i need to d/l more dependancies... maybe amsn...

[arnieboy]

ummm, i did EXACTLY what you said, every last letter, no errors at all, it was perfect, but gnome meeting freezes when i click "test" for my Creative Live! and yes Creative Live! is supported on spca5xx. any other programs i could use to test out my webcam? i can't get camorama going, i need to d/l more dependancies... maybe amsn...
is it just gnomemeeting which is freezing or the whole system? there is a command line app called gqcam

sudo apt-get install gqcam

[pitigrilli]

Thank you very much for your advice. The pc-ocular (USB SPCA5XX camera found. SONIX sn9c102 Hv7131R) for my microscope works now perfectly!

Take this leg of a fly as present.
http://www.bempf.de/images/Webcam-1129414280.png

[arnieboy]

Thank you very much for your advice. The pc-ocular (USB SPCA5XX camera found. SONIX sn9c102 Hv7131R) for my microscope works now perfectly!

Take this leg of a fly as present.
http://www.bempf.de/images/Webcam-1129414280.png
flies like these keep me going.. is that kid on choloroform or did u kill it?

[tseliot]

Arnav, you're GREAT. It worked like a charm.
Thanks

[EnglishRob]

You're a star!

I've been trying to get my two webcam's working on Linux for ages. Both my cameras (Viewquest M318B and Chicony Twinklecam DC-2110) work now. Must admit, the brightness is a little high on the Viewquest camera but I can live with that for now.

Rob

[snigri]

Thank you very much Arnieboy!!!!

My PC-CAM-300 (Creative) is working very well on Gnomemeeting and Mercury.

Your instructions worrked perfectly.

snigri:D

[4plus2]

Nice instructions, got no errorrs and it worked for me too! Thanks.
I have the USB Z-Star VIMICRO ZC0301P webcam.

Just one question though. Is 20050906 the latest version or will this date need to be changed as time goes on?

[arnieboy]

Nice instructions, got no errorrs and it worked for me too! Thanks.
I have the USB Z-Star VIMICRO ZC0301P webcam.

Just one question though. Is 20050906 the latest version or will this date need to be changed as time goes on?
1) u generally wudnt need a later version if it already works for u cuz most future versions work on including chipsets thats dont work
2) if u are still interested in updates herez where to look:
http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/

[yhotg]

hi arnieboy
i followed your instructions long ago and was working without any kind of problem...
that's it, until today that i thought - folly me :mad: - "the cam's resolution is not good, maybe i'll update the driver..."

so, i tried and now don't have cam. :(

error message:

root@shlita:/home/yhotg/paquetes/webcam/spca5xx-20051105# sudo modprobe spca5xx
FATAL: Error inserting spca5xx (/lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx.ko): Invalid module format

then i tried to re install the first one following all and every step of your howto again, but still same error, well almost :
root@shlita:/home/yhotg/paquetes/webcam/spca5xx-20050906# sudo modprobe spca5xx
FATAL: Error inserting spca5xx (/lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx.ko): Invalid module format

Helppppp pls. uff

i already miss my cam, oh precious cam my preeecioussss

:p
thanks

update after 3 hours

well, i had a fortuitous accident with the electricity and after rebooting I tried again the step by step howto and it did work again. amazing.
i don't know what was exactly the problem before, but i have my precious cam back.
so ...

[waffen]

Hello,

I have the same problem with a Genius VideoCAM Messenger and I try this instruction:


Some of you probably might have noticed ICM532 chipset based webcams freezing on breezy (for a comprehensive list refer to: http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html ) when u turn on gnomemeeting or camorama. Herez the fix for that:
FOLLOW ALL THE STEPS! DONT TAKE SHORTCUTS IF U DONT KNOW WHAT U ARE DOING
U need to do the following first of all:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r` build-essential gcc-3.4
now do the following:

sudo passwd root
and set the root password if u already dont have one
now do the following

su
CC=gcc-3.4
export CC
exit
CC=gcc-3.4
export CC
wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20050906.tar.gz
tar xvfz spca5xx-20050906.tar.gz
cd spca5xx-20050906
make
sudo modprobe -r spca5xx

And not found....

Above not make because I dont receipt any error message:
Never mind if the last command above throws up an error.

sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx*
sudo make install
sudo modprobe spca5xx
Now u should be all set to use ur ICM532 chipset based webcam.

I found this page: http://genius-europe.com/service/faq/tuxcam.htm

but I dont know how install thats drivers :(

Any idea???

Thanks!!

[arnieboy]

I am not sure what problem u are facing because u havent mentioned that. Have u tried following the instructions step by step? The link that u sent didnt make any sense apart from giving the list of genius webcams.

[waffen]

Hello Arnieboy!!

:-) my problem is in Gnomemeeting, I open a new thread for this: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=93855

if you want read the details....please!

I make step by step your how to, the only lines then I not execute:

sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx*
sudo make install
sudo modprobe spca5xx

because I dont receipt any error message...or I translate into spanish bad your sentence??:
"Never mind if the last command above throws up an error."

Thanks!!


I am not sure what problem u are facing because u havent mentioned that. Have u tried following the instructions step by step? The link that u sent didnt make any sense apart from giving the list of genius webcams.

[arnieboy]

Hello Arnieboy!!

:-) my problem is in Gnomemeeting, I open a new thread for this: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=93855

if you want read the details....please!

I make step by step your how to, the only lines then I not execute:

sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx*
sudo make install
sudo modprobe spca5xx

because I dont receipt any error message...or I translate into spanish bad your sentence??:
"Never mind if the last command above throws up an error."

Thanks!!
lol.. this is a perfect case of "lost in translation"...
The following line

Never mind if the last command above throws up an error.
does NOT mean that you have to stop after that. it means, CARRY ON!
anyway, redo all the steps. but before that make sure u have deleted the spca5xx-20050906 directory from your home folder.

[waffen]

Jajajaja!! ok....

but now I receipt this error:

mario@laptop:~/spca5xx-20050906$ make
Building SPCA5XX driver for 2.5/2.6 kernel.
Remember: you must have read/write access to your kernel source tree.
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/home/mario/spca5xx-20050906 CC=gcc-3.4 modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/build: No existe el fichero o el directorio. Alto.
make: *** [default] Error 2

Im newbie in Linux and I apreciate your help...this error I dont remenber the appears the last time I execute....



lol.. this is a perfect case of "lost in translation"...
The following line

Never mind if the last command above throws up an error.
does NOT mean that you have to stop after that. it means, CARRY ON!
anyway, redo all the steps. but before that make sure u have deleted the spca5xx-20050906 directory from your home folder.

[waffen]

Sorry!! the translate of error mesage is:

make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/build:Not found the file or dir.
Stop.

mario@laptop:~/spca5xx-20050906$ make
Building SPCA5XX driver for 2.5/2.6 kernel.
Remember: you must have read/write access to your kernel source tree.
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/home/mario/spca5xx-20050906 CC=gcc-3.4 modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/build: No existe el fichero o el directorio. Alto.
make: *** [default] Error 2

[arnieboy]

Sorry!! the translate of error mesage is:

make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/build:Not found the file or dir.
Stop.

mario@laptop:~/spca5xx-20050906$ make
Building SPCA5XX driver for 2.5/2.6 kernel.
Remember: you must have read/write access to your kernel source tree.
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/home/mario/spca5xx-20050906 CC=gcc-3.4 modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/build: No existe el fichero o el directorio. Alto.
make: *** [default] Error 2
did u delete the spca5xx-20050906 directory and REDO all the steps?

[waffen]

Yes!! attach a copy of my console:

mario@laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r` build-essential gcc-3.4
Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho
Creando árbol de dependencias... Hecho
linux-headers-2.6.12-9-386 ya está en su versión más reciente.
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.12-9-386 ya está en su versión más reciente.
build-essential ya está en su versión más reciente.
gcc-3.4 ya está en su versión más reciente.
0 actualizados, 0 se instalarán, 0 para eliminar y 0 no actualizados.
mario@laptop:~$ clear

mario@laptop:~$ sudo passwd root
Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: password updated successfully
mario@laptop:~$ su
Password:
root@laptop:/home/mario# CC=gcc-3.4
root@laptop:/home/mario# export CC
root@laptop:/home/mario# exit
exit
mario@laptop:~$ CC=gcc-3.4
mario@laptop:~$ export CC
mario@laptop:~$ wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20050906.tar.gz
--23:00:23-- http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20050906.tar.gz
=> `spca5xx-20050906.tar.gz'
Resolviendo mxhaard.free.fr... 212.27.63.116
Connecting to mxhaard.free.fr|212.27.63.116|:80... conectado.
Petición HTTP enviada, esperando respuesta... 200 OK
Longitud: 179,010 (175K) [application/x-gzip]

100%[====================================>] 179,010 42.94K/s ETA 00:00

23:00:28 (40.39 KB/s) - `spca5xx-20050906.tar.gz' saved [179010/179010]

mario@laptop:~$ tar xvfz spca5xx-20050906.tar.gz
spca5xx-20050906/
spca5xx-20050906/Makefile
spca5xx-20050906/RGB-YUV%2fmodule-setting
spca5xx-20050906/README
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spcai2c_init.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spcagamma.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/cx11646.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/sn9cxxx.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/cxlib.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/zc3xx.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/cs2102.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/jpeg_qtables.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/pas106b.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca504_init.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca506.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca533.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca536.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca561.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/mr97311.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/sonix.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca5xx.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spcausb.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/icm105a.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/hv7131b.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/hv7131c.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca501_init.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/pb0330.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/et61xx51.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/jpeg_header.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca508_init.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spcaCompat.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/dummy_cam.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spcadecoder.c
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spcadecoder.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/tas5130c.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/hdcs2020.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca505_init.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca500_init.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/tv8532.h
spca5xx-20050906/CHANGELOG
spca5xx-20050906/README-TV8532
spca5xx-20050906/INSTALL
spca5xx-20050906/cutlog.py
mario@laptop:~$ cd spca5xx-20050906
mario@laptop:~/spca5xx-20050906$ make
Building SPCA5XX driver for 2.5/2.6 kernel.
Remember: you must have read/write access to your kernel source tree.
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/home/mario/spca5xx-20050906 CC=gcc-3.4 modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/build: No existe el fichero o el directorio. Alto.
make: *** [default] Error 2



did u delete the spca5xx-20050906 directory and REDO all the steps?

[arnieboy]

Yes!! attach a copy of my console:

mario@laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r` build-essential gcc-3.4
Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho
Creando árbol de dependencias... Hecho
linux-headers-2.6.12-9-386 ya está en su versión más reciente.
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.12-9-386 ya está en su versión más reciente.
build-essential ya está en su versión más reciente.
gcc-3.4 ya está en su versión más reciente.
0 actualizados, 0 se instalarán, 0 para eliminar y 0 no actualizados.
mario@laptop:~$ clear

mario@laptop:~$ sudo passwd root
Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: password updated successfully
mario@laptop:~$ su
Password:
root@laptop:/home/mario# CC=gcc-3.4
root@laptop:/home/mario# export CC
root@laptop:/home/mario# exit
exit
mario@laptop:~$ CC=gcc-3.4
mario@laptop:~$ export CC
mario@laptop:~$ wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20050906.tar.gz
--23:00:23-- http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20050906.tar.gz
=> `spca5xx-20050906.tar.gz'
Resolviendo mxhaard.free.fr... 212.27.63.116
Connecting to mxhaard.free.fr|212.27.63.116|:80... conectado.
Petición HTTP enviada, esperando respuesta... 200 OK
Longitud: 179,010 (175K) [application/x-gzip]

100%[====================================>] 179,010 42.94K/s ETA 00:00

23:00:28 (40.39 KB/s) - `spca5xx-20050906.tar.gz' saved [179010/179010]

mario@laptop:~$ tar xvfz spca5xx-20050906.tar.gz
spca5xx-20050906/
spca5xx-20050906/Makefile
spca5xx-20050906/RGB-YUV%2fmodule-setting
spca5xx-20050906/README
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spcai2c_init.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spcagamma.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/cx11646.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/sn9cxxx.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/cxlib.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/zc3xx.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/cs2102.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/jpeg_qtables.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/pas106b.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca504_init.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca506.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca533.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca536.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca561.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/mr97311.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/sonix.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca5xx.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spcausb.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/icm105a.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/hv7131b.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/hv7131c.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca501_init.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/pb0330.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/et61xx51.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/jpeg_header.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca508_init.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spcaCompat.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/dummy_cam.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spcadecoder.c
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spcadecoder.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/tas5130c.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/hdcs2020.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca505_init.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca500_init.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/tv8532.h
spca5xx-20050906/CHANGELOG
spca5xx-20050906/README-TV8532
spca5xx-20050906/INSTALL
spca5xx-20050906/cutlog.py
mario@laptop:~$ cd spca5xx-20050906
mario@laptop:~/spca5xx-20050906$ make
Building SPCA5XX driver for 2.5/2.6 kernel.
Remember: you must have read/write access to your kernel source tree.
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/home/mario/spca5xx-20050906 CC=gcc-3.4 modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/build: No existe el fichero o el directorio. Alto.
make: *** [default] Error 2
try the following:

make clean
make
and then carry on with the rest of the steps
also let me know if u find any errors

[waffen]

Hi,
yersterday my entire system crash!! I dont know why?... right now I'm reinstalling the Breezy (I couldn't fix the xserver)...and try install de camera :-)

Thanks!

[waffen]

PERFECT!!!!

Thanks Arnieboy for your support!!! the camera works perfect in gnomemeeting...

but.... in camorama I receipt this error:

"Could not connect to video device (/dev/video0/). Please check connection."

any idea? :D

[arnieboy]

PERFECT!!!!

Thanks Arnieboy for your support!!! the camera works perfect in gnomemeeting...

but.... in camorama I receipt this error:

"Could not connect to video device (/dev/video0/). Please check connection."

any idea? :D
please paste the results of the following command in terminal:

ls /dev/video*

[waffen]

Hi,

teh reply is: File not found...


please paste the results of the following command in terminal:

ls /dev/video*

[arnieboy]

Hi,

teh reply is: File not found...
alright herez what u need to do.. u need to find out which device file is being used by gnomemeeting and link the same file to /dev/video0. so u have to figure which file it is. if the file is /dev/xyz (lets say) then u wud have to do the following:

sudo ln -s /dev/xyz /dev/video0
and camorama will work.
hope this helps.

[`GooZ´]

Well THIS is an idea for putting in automatix! :-)

[derrick1985]

Hey

I followed the directions and I can't get my SPC102 based chipset (microdia, made by logitech electronics (not THE LOGITECH) to work. Gnome meeting doesn't detect it in v4l or v4l2.

any ideas? the USB microphone part of the webcam works, just not the cam.

Thanks.

[Cuppa-Chino]

this might be a bit of ridiculous newbie question, but I will shoot anyway:

there a deb-packages at http://mxhaard.free.fr/ which steps can I avoid?

[arnieboy]

this might be a bit of ridiculous newbie question, but I will shoot anyway:

there a deb-packages at http://mxhaard.free.fr/ which steps can I avoid?
dont avoid anything. take that or leave it.
and dont use the deb

[imranj]

Hello, i am planning to install Ubuntu (Aka Kubuntu:),:KS

Ok, checking this thread out, i wanted to know how can u know what chipset is my web cam running on, say Creative PC-Cam 550.

And did any one else , was able to make it work with any of the available applications of Linux?

Thanks, please help me make my Ubuntu installation successful.:smile:

[jerryluis]

Excuse me but how did you solve the installation process of spca5xx?

you untar and unzip OK!
after that step by step what did you do?
I try
make
but I receive your error. PLease inform me because the same problem I have with ubuntu 5.10 and with suse 10:confused:

[Cuppa-Chino]

Hi arnieboy et al,
followed the instructions exactly and webcam works okay. Now I cannot my wireless card to connect to my router anymore (had to write this from a Windo$ boot :( ) . I was using ndiswrapper and wpa_supplicant and had no problems before.

Could this have to do with the gcc-change required for the webcam?




sudo passwd root
and set the root password if u already dont have one
now do the following

su
CC=gcc-3.4
export CC
exit
CC=gcc-3.4
export CC
wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20050906.tar.gz
tar xvfz spca5xx-20050906.tar.gz
cd spca5xx-20050906
make
sudo modprobe -r spca5xx


How can I change it back? Just as the above but with CC=gcc-4?? And will the cam still work than?

Thanks for you help ...

[arnieboy]

Hi arnieboy et al,
followed the instructions exactly and webcam works okay. Now I cannot my wireless card to connect to my router anymore (had to write this from a Windo$ boot :( ) . I was using ndiswrapper and wpa_supplicant and had no problems before.

Could this have to do with the gcc-change required for the webcam?



How can I change it back? Just as the above but with CC=gcc-4?? And will the cam still work than?

Thanks for you help ...
installing ur webcam modules has nothing to with ndiswrapper. by exporting gcc to version 3.4, u merely make modules compile with version 3.4 of gcc in that session. when u log off and get back to gnome, gcc 4.0 will again become the default. something like ndiswrapper which already has been compiled prior to your compiling the webcam modules will not get affected even if u set gcc to 3.4 for one session because ndiswrapper does not get compiled every time its run. its just a binary which has nothing to do with gcc once its set up. u need to look around and find out why ndiswrapper is not working. it has nothing to do with following this howto.

[Cuppa-Chino]

okay thanks arnie - just learned something :) - will see if I can repair the system ...

[pipepool]

Hello, it would be useful know if i can use this HOWTO in hoary. Well, really, i have used it, but when i do "sudo modprob spca5xxx" the output is:

"FATAL: Error inserting spca5xx (/lib/modules/2.6.10-6-386/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx.ko): Invalid module format

I think that i have followed step to step the Howto, i think. If i want to repeat it, i have to do anything before? Well, thx for all

[arnieboy]

Hello, it would be useful know if i can use this HOWTO in hoary. Well, really, i have used it, but when i do "sudo modprob spca5xxx" the output is:

"FATAL: Error inserting spca5xx (/lib/modules/2.6.10-6-386/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx.ko): Invalid module format

I think that i have followed step to step the Howto, i think. If i want to repeat it, i have to do anything before? Well, thx for all
this howto was not written for hoary, hence u shd not have followed it. anyway this is how to do it for hoary (i am not sure it will work but u can give it a try)
assuming u have the headers installed and the gzipped file downloaded, do the following:

cd spca5xx-20050906
make clean
make
sudo modprobe -r spca5xx
sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx*
sudo make install
sudo modprobe spca5xx

if u get any errors at any of the above steps paste it here.

[pipepool]

Thnx, thnx and more thnx :D :D :D :D It worked correctly

[arnieboy]

Thnx, thnx and more thnx :D :D :D :D It worked correctly
nice :)

[Cybercool]

I justed installed the webcam on my laptop.
And it works.

But now i want to install it on my system and when i want to do v4l-conf i get the next error:
keizers@pcivo:~/spca5xx-20050906$ v4l-conf
v4l-conf: using X11 display :0.0
WARNING: Your X-Server has no DGA support.
mode: 1280x1024, depth=24, bpp=32, bpl=5120, base=unknown
can't open /dev/video0: No space left on device
keizers@pcivo:~/spca5xx-20050906$


What to do?

[jerryluis]

U need to do the following first of all:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r` build-essential gcc-3.4


Sorry but it doesn't work for me, when I run it I receive an errore message, like that files don't exist..


Reading package lists ...Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E:Couldn't find package linux-headers-uname -r
Do you know how can I solve?

[arnieboy]

u are not copying and pasting the command. u left out the quotation marks and tried to manually type it, thats why it didnt work. `uname -r` is an argument here, not a switch.
Please copy and paste the commands

[jerryluis]

u are not copying and pasting the command. u left out the quotation marks and tried to manually type it, thats why it didnt work. `uname -r` is an argument here, not a switch.
Please copy and paste the commands

You're right, infact now my webcam work properly with camorama. you're my hero.
By the way I don't understand what keys I should type, because on my keyboard there is only " ' " and you use one different.
thank you

:p

[arnieboy]

You're right, infact now my webcam work properly with camorama. you're my hero.
By the way I don't understand what keys I should type, because on my keyboard there is only " ' " and you use one different.
thank you

:p
use the key just left of the 1/! key on the top row.

[Cybercool]

Does anybody has an answer on my problem already?

[arnieboy]

Does anybody has an answer on my problem already?
why are u trying to use v4l-conf? have u tried using camorama or gnomemeeting?

[Cybercool]

why are u trying to use v4l-conf? have u tried using camorama or gnomemeeting?


gnomemeeting says, no devices found!!

[arnieboy]

gnomemeeting says, no devices found!!
did u follow this howto step by step?

[dresnu]

i followed everything step by step, no errors, but my camera doesn't work :-(. Neither in camorama nor in kopete. Camorama says it can't connect to the device, and in kopete there is no device that i can select. ls /dev/video* returns "/dev/video0". thx

[arnieboy]

i followed everything step by step, no errors, but my camera doesn't work :-(. Neither in camorama nor in kopete. Camorama says it can't connect to the device, and in kopete there is no device that i can select. ls /dev/video* returns "/dev/video0". thx
whats the make of ur webcam?

[derrick1985]

i followed everything step by step, no errors, but my camera doesn't work :-(. Neither in camorama nor in kopete. Camorama says it can't connect to the device, and in kopete there is no device that i can select. ls /dev/video* returns "/dev/video0". thx

Yeah, that's the same problem i'm having.

Mine (in XP) is detected as SN9C103, Driver provider sonix

[arnieboy]

alright plz make sure your webcam is listed on the following page before u try this howto:
http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html
if its not, this howto wont work.

[dresnu]

ok, my fault :D... I had read that the quickcam was supported but I then realised that I have a different product ID than the one listed :(. Sorry. (It's very annoying to have the simpliest webcam in the world but not being able to use it...)

[Cybercool]

alright plz make sure your webcam is listed on the following page before u try this howto:
http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html
if its not, this howto wont work.


I followed the howto step by step, and the webcam also works on my laptop ubuntu.
So why not my normal desktop.

Greetingz,
Ivo

[arnieboy]

I followed the howto step by step, and the webcam also works on my laptop ubuntu.
So why not my normal desktop.

Greetingz,
Ivo
alright try this (ALL) from terminal:

sudo apt-get install gqcam
sudo ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video
gqcam
if the cam runs fine, u are all set. If it doesnt please list the errors here.

[Cybercool]

alright try this (ALL) from terminal:

sudo apt-get install gqcam
sudo ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video
gqcam
if the cam runs fine, u are all set. If it doesnt please list the errors here.

OK i did what you asked for:
keizers@pcivo:~$ sudo ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video
keizers@pcivo:~$ gqcam

But i get the next error when i start op gqcam: :( :(
/dev/video: No space left on device

So, it doesn't work!

[Chris Tucker]

about the wifi stop'd working post, if your on a laptop like mine, you needed to change some kernel things for your ACPI to work... and that change also needed to be made for wifi to work in my case, try redoing any changes you made to make your wifi work in the first place.

i'll be trying this with my spca5 compatible camera when i get home today...

Anyone know any linux msn messenger clients that support voice/vid? i have a lot of family members that use MSN messenger on windows and have webcams.. with the holiday season coming up, i'll need to be able to chat with them.

[Cybercool]

about the wifi stop'd working post, if your on a laptop like mine, you needed to change some kernel things for your ACPI to work... and that change also needed to be made for wifi to work in my case, try redoing any changes you made to make your wifi work in the first place.

i'll be trying this with my spca5 compatible camera when i get home today...

Anyone know any linux msn messenger clients that support voice/vid? i have a lot of family members that use MSN messenger on windows and have webcams.. with the holiday season coming up, i'll need to be able to chat with them.


Mercury supports almost everything MSN 7.0 does!! :D

[Chris Tucker]

thanks, i'll try mercury...

few notes.. well, heres a suprise: MY CAMERA IS WORKING! YEEHAW! thanks thanks and yet more thanks! this was a major reason i dualbooted..
(types around cat that is trying to use the trackpad on this notebook)

ok, question though, is there a way to change the capture image size? i know in windows it can capture small images or big ones (resolution speaking) i know the framrate jumps down to 15fps or less with the max res on this camera but for internet conversation, thats quite above adiquite for a camera i got for free with my notebook.. and ideas?

also, gqcam gives me some control over brightness, but in all my apps my picture is signifigantly darker than in any vid view app in windows, any ways to enhance it? (may autmatically be better when i fix my picture capture size and stuff.)
EDIT: OH YEA, forgot to mention, make it easier for anyone else with this webcam to find a howto, its a Nextech webcam...

[arnieboy]

thanks, i'll try mercury...

few notes.. well, heres a suprise: MY CAMERA IS WORKING! YEEHAW! thanks thanks and yet more thanks! this was a major reason i dualbooted..
(types around cat that is trying to use the trackpad on this notebook)

ok, question though, is there a way to change the capture image size? i know in windows it can capture small images or big ones (resolution speaking) i know the framrate jumps down to 15fps or less with the max res on this camera but for internet conversation, thats quite above adiquite for a camera i got for free with my notebook.. and ideas?

also, gqcam gives me some control over brightness, but in all my apps my picture is signifigantly darker than in any vid view app in windows, any ways to enhance it? (may autmatically be better when i fix my picture capture size and stuff.)
EDIT: OH YEA, forgot to mention, make it easier for anyone else with this webcam to find a howto, its a Nextech webcam...
tried camorama? not sure but it might help u control the picture capture size.

sudo apt-get install camorama

[Chris Tucker]

when i try to change the size of the image in camorama it crashes and dumps this several times: (camorama:13235): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_entry_set_text: assertion `text != NULL' failed
camorama is an awesome little app though, but looks like i need a more direct way to adjust the camera.. err.. directly.. lol

thanks for the great help! keep it up!

[arnieboy]

alright try this.. change the desktop theme to the default "human" theme and try running camorama again.

[Chris Tucker]

erm.. playing with camorama i fuged it up :S where would i find the camorama config file? i was playing with auto capture and it froze, now it freezes on start :S i cant get back to the menu to turn it off that way.
once i do that i'll try the theme thing....

[arnieboy]

erm.. playing with camorama i fuged it up :S where would i find the camorama config file? i was playing with auto capture and it froze, now it freezes on start :S i cant get back to the menu to turn it off that way.
once i do that i'll try the theme thing....
try doing

rm -rf ~/.camorama
from terminal and then start camorama again

[Chris Tucker]

config fixed, theme changed, x server restarted to completely apply theme. no GTK warnings now when i try to change the size in camorama, but it just errors "unable to capture image" and exits. is there a more direct way to change how images are gotten from the camera?

[arnieboy]

config fixed, theme changed, x server restarted to completely apply theme. no GTK warnings now when i try to change the size in camorama, but it just errors "unable to capture image" and exits. is there a more direct way to change how images are gotten from the camera?
yes, changing the theme fixed the GTK warnings.. the reason why i asked u to do that was to get a cleaner camorama error output from terminal (by running camorama from terminal)
I have tried the following progs which use my webcam on linux:

gnomemeeting
camorama
gqcam
spcagui (made by the same guy who wrote the spca5xx drivers.. its a little rough around the edges but u might wanna give it a try)
amsn
u can try these or others to get what u want.
I have never tried video still capturing on linux and therez certainly no way I can do it at work (right now) but I maybe able to give u some feedback when I get back home later tonight.

[Cybercool]

OK i did what you asked for:
keizers@pcivo:~$ sudo ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video
keizers@pcivo:~$ gqcam

But i get the next error when i start op gqcam: :( :(
/dev/video: No space left on device

So, it doesn't work!

Do you have an answer for this?? arnieboy??

[arnieboy]

Do you have an answer for this?? arnieboy??
ok try this..
unplug all usb devices from your desktop, and plug in the webcam first and try and see if ur webcam works this time (with camorama or gqcam). if it does, plug in the rest of the usb devices.
if this procedure does not work, unplug all the USB devices again and redo the steps in the first post with one change. before doing "make", do a "make clean". finish all the steps and now plug in your cam and see if it works or not.

[Chris Tucker]

Do you have an answer for this?? arnieboy??
when i did the ln -s line it worked fine for me .. my camera also showed up as /dev/video0 , try gqcam -v /dev/video0 <-- specifying the device

[Cybercool]

OK i got it working.
But sometimes my hotplug runs stuck.
Or i can't get an image of the cam because resource is busy.
And when i want to rmmod spca5xx (of course) it busy.
Howto get this write when this happends?

[pinballkid]

I have a Genius VideoCAM GE111. I've tried following the instructions in this howto and everything went smoothly, except that GnomeMeeeting doesn't detect my webcam. I also cant find a /dev/video0 or /dev/video file or anything else that might indicate that my system has loaded a new usb device.

lsusb comes up with this:
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 093a:2471 Pixart Imaging, Inc.
which does seem to be supported on this page (http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html)

lsmod | grep spca5xx give me this:
spca5xx 640432 0
videodev 9344 1 spca5xx
usbcore 104316 6 spca5xx,usb_storage,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd

Does anyone have any idea how to get ubuntu to create the /dev/video or /dev/video0 file when I plug in my webcam?

Thanks

[jmn2k1]

I have a Genius VideoCAM GE111. I've tried following the instructions in this howto and everything went smoothly, except that GnomeMeeeting doesn't detect my webcam. I also cant find a /dev/video0 or /dev/video file or anything else that might indicate that my system has loaded a new usb device.
I have the same webcam, and is running ok.... follow all the steps in the how-to.

Anyone knows how to tweak the brightness in gnomemeeting?? (or somewhere else... but to using it with gnomemeeting...)

[pinballkid]

I have the same webcam, and is running ok.... follow all the steps in the how-to.

Glad to hear it works! I've followed all the steps again very carefully and still no luck. What version kernel are you running on? Gnomemeeting still wont detect a device on my machine (ubuntu breezy kernel 2.6.12-10-386)

[arnieboy]

Glad to hear it works! I've followed all the steps again very carefully and still no luck. What version kernel are you running on? Gnomemeeting still wont detect a device on my machine (ubuntu breezy kernel 2.6.12-10-386)
redo the instructions again with one difference:
do a
make clean before doing
make

[mjshepherd]

I followed your instructions to the letter to try to install this driver for my digital camera, but when i get to the "make" command, i get the error message
bash: make: command not found

I tried to ignore this, and went on to "make install", and received the same sort of error message.

what can I do?

Thanks, Matthew

[arnieboy]

I followed your instructions to the letter to try to install this driver for my digital camera, but when i get to the "make" command, i get the error message
bash: make: command not found

I tried to ignore this, and went on to "make install", and received the same sort of error message.

what can I do?

Thanks, Matthew
do the following and try again

sudo apt-get install make

[mjshepherd]

Thanks - now "make" is working but there are other problems. This is what happened the last time i tried to install this driver (from the make command)

matthew@ubuntu:~/spca5xx-20050906$ make
Building SPCA5XX driver for 2.5/2.6 kernel.
Remember: you must have read/write access to your kernel source tree.
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/home/matthew/spca5xx-20050906 CC=gcc-3.4 modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [default] Error 2
matthew@ubuntu:~/spca5xx-20050906$ sudo modprobe -r spca5xx
matthew@ubuntu:~/spca5xx-20050906$ sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx*
matthew@ubuntu:~/spca5xx-20050906$ sudo make install
mkdir -p /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/
rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca50x.ko
rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/et61x.ko
install -c -m 0644 spca5xx.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/
install: cannot stat `spca5xx.ko': No such file or directory
make: *** [install] Error 1
matthew@ubuntu:~/spca5xx-20050906$ sudo modprobe spca5xx
FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx/spca5xx.ko': No such file or directory
matthew@ubuntu:~/spca5xx-20050906$

I'm getting very tired now. Do i have to go through the entire process every time, or can i cut in at a later stage (eg. do i have to download the driver package every time?)

[arnieboy]

do the following step-by-step after opening up terminal

su
CC=gcc-3.4
export CC
exit
CC=gcc-3.4
export CC
cd spca5xx-20050906
make clean
make
sudo modprobe -r spca5xx
sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx*
sudo make install
sudo modprobe spca5xx

[mjshepherd]

thanks for the revised instructions! this time i got as far as "make install" before things went wrong! here's what happened:

matthew@ubuntu:~/spca5xx-20050906$ sudo make install
mkdir -p /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/
rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca50x.ko
rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/et61x.ko
install -c -m 0644 spca5xx.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/
install: cannot stat `spca5xx.ko': No such file or directory
make: *** [install] Error 1
matthew@ubuntu:~/spca5xx-20050906$ sudo modprobe spca5xx
FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx/spca5xx.ko': No such file or directory

[arnieboy]

are u sure u did this?

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r` build-essential gcc-3.4
if not, then redo the above and then the following:



su
CC=gcc-3.4
export CC
exit
CC=gcc-3.4
export CC
cd spca5xx-20050906
make clean
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe spca5xx

[mjshepherd]

i did, but look what happened - there's another error, right at the beginning of the process!

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.12-9-386 is already the newest version.
E: Couldn't find package gcc-3.4

Sorry!

[arnieboy]

i did, but look what happened - there's another error, right at the beginning of the process!

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.12-9-386 is already the newest version.
E: Couldn't find package gcc-3.4

Sorry!
that explains it.. why it wasnt getting compiled..
well paste the contents of

sudo cat /etc/apt/sources.list

[mjshepherd]

do you mean type this into terminal, and paste what comes out? Ok... but there's a lot of it!

deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ - Release i386 (20051012)]/ breezy main restricted


## Uncomment the following two lines to fetch updated software from the network
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main restricted
# deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to fetch major bug fix updates produced
## after the final release of the distribution.
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-updates main restricted
# deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-updates main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy universe
# deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy universe

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted

# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe

[arnieboy]

ok do the following:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
and make the contents of file look exactly like the following:

## deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ - Release i386 (20051012)]/ breezy main restricted


## Uncomment the following two lines to fetch updated software from the network
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main restricted
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to fetch major bug fix updates produced
## after the final release of the distribution.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-updates main restricted
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-updates main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy universe
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy universe

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe

save and exit and then do the following:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r` build-essential gcc-3.4
su
CC=gcc-3.4
export CC
exit
CC=gcc-3.4
export CC
cd spca5xx-20050906
make clean
make
sudo modprobe -r spca5xx
sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx*
sudo make install
sudo modprobe spca5xx

[arnieboy]

i made a small correction in the above..
added "make clean" before "make"

[mjshepherd]

Well, I'm increasingly convinced that this will actually work. I installed the updates as you suggested. However, i'm on dial-up access, and this took about an hour. I then tried:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r` build-essential gcc-3.4

and it started to download following my acceptance of the unpacked disk usage. However, i could see that this next download would take another hour and a half at least.

By then it was nearly 3 in the morning, and I was knackered (I still am) so I went to bed.

Is there any way i can download this installation on my broadband connection at work (windows system) and install it from a CD when i get home? I've found a HOW TO at

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-79896.html

should i follow the advice here?

I am beginning to wonder how much i need to use this camera...

[mjshepherd]

Rats.

I'm not sure i've even managed to update yet. I think i may be in download hell!

if you do apt-get update does this actually download and install updates, or does it just work out which updates are available for download? I ask this because after typing sudo apt-get update, and downloading stuff for ages, i got a message in the top right of the screen saying that new updates were available. When i later clicked on this I got to the update manager, and, now offline, clicking on "install" meant that i got repeated error messages saying that the server wasn't available! I now appear to have lost the information on which updates are available (update manager now tells me that I am up to date - which I don't believe).

Is it possible to download only those updates that I need, so that i can install gcc-3.4 (now downloaded as per the HOW TO above), so that i can install spca5xx, so that i can use my camera?

Or should i just give up?

[pinballkid]

I've finally managed to get my Genius ViewCAM working with this driver :smile: ! The howto worked in every way, except that I needed to download the latest version of spca5xx from the website (instead of using spca5xx-20050906).

Thanks to everyone for all the help!

[Al_maverick]

I followed this how-to and got my cam working. But then I enabled the noapic and no_timer_check kernel boot option. (it was to correct with the clock going too fast on amd64)
Now the pc freezes whenever I try to use the cam. For example, in the configuration panel of kopete.
Did anyone have the same problem?

[albacker]

dont have an icm532 web cam... i have a quickcam messenger.
eni@madgeek:~$ lsusb | grep Logitech
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 046d:08f0 Logitech, Inc.
if i see its ID i get its a quickcam messenger..
i have camorama camstream and some other cam-utils installed..
i installed qc-usb-source and tried to compile it, but i got some errors..
some friend told me i had to re-compile my kernel.
can someone help me ? it would be nice a step-by-step tutorial or something like it.

[viscount]

Worked very well for me, gnomemeeting, camorama, and even gqcam once
video was linked to video0.

thanks for this.. now if only we could get a good msn/yahoo video msg
client that would support cameras I wouldnt feel quite so isolated
from friends and family overseas.

Thanks!

[albacker]

i would really appreciate to know what did you do, for making the qcam work ?
Step by step please..
Did you compile anything ?
Did you recompile kerenel ?
Did you link any other device to video0

thanks

[albacker]

i tried following th step-by-step tuto and i couldnt make it work,
beucase i cant find the right linux-headers; here it is :
root@madgeek:/dev/.static/dev # uname -r
2.6.12-8-386
root@madgeek:/dev/.static/dev # apt-cache search linux | grep header | grep 2.6.12-8
root@madgeek:/dev/.static/dev # apt-cache search linux | grep header | grep 2.6.12
linux-headers-2.6.12-9 - Header files related to Linux kernel version 2.6.12
linux-headers-2.6.12-9-386 - Linux kernel headers 2.6.12 on 386
linux-headers-2.6.12-9-686 - Linux kernel headers 2.6.12 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV
linux-headers-2.6.12-9-686-smp - Linux kernel headers 2.6.12 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV SMP
linux-headers-2.6.12-9-k7 - Linux kernel headers 2.6.12 on AMD K7
linux-headers-2.6.12-9-k7-smp - Linux kernel headers 2.6.12 on AMD K7 SMP
linux-headers-2.6.12-10 - Header files related to Linux kernel version 2.6.12
linux-headers-2.6.12-10-386 - Linux kernel headers 2.6.12 on 386
linux-headers-2.6.12-10-686 - Linux kernel headers 2.6.12 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV
linux-headers-2.6.12-10-686-smp - Linux kernel headers 2.6.12 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV SMP
linux-headers-2.6.12-10-k7 - Linux kernel headers 2.6.12 on AMD K7
linux-headers-2.6.12-10-k7-smp - Linux kernel headers 2.6.12 on AMD K7 SMP

[viscount]

i would really appreciate to know what did you do, for making the qcam work ?
Step by step please..
Did you compile anything ?
Did you recompile kerenel ?
Did you link any other device to video0


I followed the instructions step by step from the original post.
Then you must `ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video`

and it worked, that simple

[albacker]

theres also the problem that i dont see my video or video0 in /dev
so if i do ls
# ls /dev/ | grep video
i get nothing :S
..
any idea ? what about the linux-headers that i cant find any same as my kernel ?

[pinballkid]

I got this problem when I was using the wrong version of spca5xx. Perhaps downloading the newest version from their website will do the trick?

[Stonekeeper]

Downloading the latest version certainly helped me. However, I'm getting capture at way less than .5 fps. My camera is a Orite My-Cam but is being detected as an LG LIC-200. Does anyone else have this issue with being really slow?

[arnieboy]

howto updated with link to latest driver pack.

[GQed76]

install linux-headers-`uname -r` linux-restricted-modules-`uname

This tends to break my kernel since I have installed the nvidia drivers on my own. Is this step necessary

[arnieboy]

install linux-headers-`uname -r` linux-restricted-modules-`uname

This tends to break my kernel since I have installed the nvidia drivers on my own. Is this step necessary
this step ensures that u have the kernel headers corresponding to your kernel version installed. if u can do it manually, nothing wrong with it.

[imranj]

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 041e:400f Creative Technology, Ltd


This is reported by my lsusb command of my webcam PC-550.
So do you know , which chipset it uses? or any other details
or project working to enable this cam to work?

Help.

[encompass]

I get the following error....
root@lappy:/home/jason/Work_Programs/New_Work/spca5xx-20060101# modprobe spca5xxFATAL: Error inserting spca5xx (/lib/modules/2.6.12-10-686/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx.ko): Invalid module format
root@lappy:/home/jason/Work_Programs/New_Work/spca5xx-20060101#


any ideas? I have the Quickcam Express Messenger
oh yes and lsusb
jason@lappy:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:08f6 Logitech, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1267:0210 Logic3 / SpectraVideo plc
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
jason@lappy:~$

[mike.beta]

Works like a charm for my creative nx pro! Wiii!

Thx a lot! :)

[arnieboy]

I get the following error....

any ideas? I have the Quickcam Express Messenger
oh yes and lsusb
jason@lappy:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:08f6 Logitech, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1267:0210 Logic3 / SpectraVideo plc
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
jason@lappy:~$
the error probably occurs because u have not compiled it with gcc 3.4. did u follow the instructions line by line? read them again and u will know what u missed.
when u redo the stuff, do a

make clean in the source folder before u try recompiling.

[kevingc]

I followed the instructions (totally copy and paste), but running gqcam returns "/dev/video: No such file or directory"

Running camstream or xawtv freezes the computer.

I have an Ezonics EZ USB CAM III (Model No. EZ-306).

BTW, the install procedure throws no errors.

[louis_nichols]

WORKED LIKE A CHARM!! :smile:

so the whole problem was compiling spca5xx with gcc 3.4 instead of 4.0. I seem to remember though that once I compiled it under Fedora Core 4 with gcc 4.0 and it worked.... maybe I'm wong. Anyway... 2 newbie questions, if anyone can help:

1. running modprobe means that the module will be loaded on startup in the future? If not, how can I do that?

2 the command CC=gcc-3.4 doesn't have a permanent effect, right? after a reboot, it will go back to 4.0?

[arnieboy]

WORKED LIKE A CHARM!! :smile:

so the whole problem was compiling spca5xx with gcc 3.4 instead of 4.0. I seem to remember though that once I compiled it under Fedora Core 4 with gcc 4.0 and it worked.... maybe I'm wong. Anyway... 2 newbie questions, if anyone can help:

1. running modprobe means that the module will be loaded on startup in the future? If not, how can I do that?

2 the command CC=gcc-3.4 doesn't have a permanent effect, right? after a reboot, it will go back to 4.0?
correct guesses on both questions.

[fp-www.tonepad.com]

Worked for me.

Thanks!

Fp

[gslater]

Sweet....I am now up and running on the webcam.

Gnome meeting is ok....but does anyone know when Skype will be updating the linux version to have video calling....or do they leave it up to the open source community to do that?

[louis_nichols]

the thing with setting the CC environment variable, isn't it the same as just using

sudo make CC=gcc-3.4

?

[arnieboy]

the thing with setting the CC environment variable, isn't it the same as just using

sudo make CC=gcc-3.4

?
if this actually works, its a great find and I will update my howto. The last time I tried to export CC with sudo (and that was many months back when I wrote this howto), it didnt work.

[arnieboy]

Sweet....I am now up and running on the webcam.

Gnome meeting is ok....but does anyone know when Skype will be updating the linux version to have video calling....or do they leave it up to the open source community to do that?
skype is closed source. we've got to wait...

[louis_nichols]

well... I'm a newb and I haven't seen it work this way, but I seeem to remember seing that somewhere. I don't know if it depends on the way makefile is configured or is a universal option for make. (I'm not sure of the syntax, either)

[arnieboy]

well... I'm a newb and I haven't seen it work this way, but I seeem to remember seing that somewhere. I don't know if it depends on the way makefile is configured or is a universal option for make. (I'm not sure of the syntax, either)
yes I came back home and checked! It actually does work when a valid makefile is present. I will now re-write this howto! thanks a lot for the input!!
this makes the howto a lot shorter and removes the use of root :)

[francpalm]

Hi all, I'm a newb in this forum and in ubuntu.
I'd follow the guide for this module but I've this result:

after the make command:
make: *** [default] Segmentation fault

someone can help me?
Many thanks.

[jamesshuang]

I recently purchased a Logitech Quickcam Chat, USB ID 0x046d:0x092c, stated as supported on the spca5xx page. The cam does in fact work, but with three problems - resolution is much lower than advertised (advertised 640x480, only actually goes up to 320x240), the colors are very very bad (oversaturated, overcontrast), and frame rate is abysmal (advertised 30 fps, getting around 5).

Does anyone happen to know why this is happening? I can live with the colors, but the resolution and frame rate are killing me.

[chele]

EasyCam https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Webcam did the trick for me. It automatically downloads and builds the drivers for many webcams.

[peter.faller]

By following the excellent instructions on page 1 of this thread, I have a Genius GE111 webcam up and running on Breezy. However, there are a few problems: in camorama or camstream, the colours and brightness are poor, and while the contrast and brightness controls work, the colour, hue and white balance don't. Trying to use streamer for video capture gives a very dark picture. Are there some other controls or settings that I can use to adjust the image? (I get a good picture with good colour balance on Windows). Thanks!

[arnieboy]

By following the excellent instructions on page 1 of this thread, I have a Genius GE111 webcam up and running on Breezy. However, there are a few problems: in camorama or camstream, the colours and brightness are poor, and while the contrast and brightness controls work, the colour, hue and white balance don't. Trying to use streamer for video capture gives a very dark picture. Are there some other controls or settings that I can use to adjust the image? (I get a good picture with good colour balance on Windows). Thanks!
u cant get the windows picture quality simply because windows uses the real proprietary drivers which genius provides. The linux drivers are mostly reverse-engineering attempts and the results quite expectedly cannot be perfect. All these hardware manufacturers simply need to release their specs and drivers to us.. or else the results will be hard to change.

[imranj]

As told before, i am saying it once more, i have Creative Web Cam 550 and i also have being able to find out the chipset its using the Image sensor, thanks to one dude at creative.

Their have being few users who have told about their similar cams but they also had no luck in getting the cam to work.

So can any one pls advise with this information that i have posted below of where i can get a working driver for linux please.


Macronix MX88L60 + Hynix HV7131E (sensor)

So please advise............

[nighttime]

Man, you are so cool, thank you SO much.

[mattjackets]

help please...

cam: logitech quickcam for notebooks. ID 046d:08ae
kernel: 2.6.12-10-k7

the stock kernel driver works as well as the 20060101 spca source....which is not very well. /dev/video1 is created, and demsg looks all well & good, but camorama and gnomemeeting hang when trying to access the cam. xawtv shows nothing.

here's the output from dmesg with the 20060101 driver:

[4296462.793000] /home/matt/spca5xx-20060101/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: USB SPCA5XX camera found. Logitech QC for Notebooks
[4296462.793000] /home/matt/spca5xx-20060101/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: [spca5xx_probe:8435] Camera type JPEG
[4296462.848000] /home/matt/spca5xx-20060101/drivers/usb/zc3xx.h: [zcxx_probeSensor:193] sensor 3w Vga ??? 0x0000
[4296462.851000] /home/matt/spca5xx-20060101/drivers/usb/zc3xx.h: [zc3xx_config:367] Find Sensor UNKNOW_0 force Tas5130
[4296462.852000] /home/matt/spca5xx-20060101/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: [spca5xx_getcapability:2217] maxw 640 maxh 480 minw 176 minh 144
[4296496.384000] /home/matt/spca5xx-20060101/drivers/usb/zc3xx.h: [zcxx_probeSensor:193] sensor 3w Vga ??? 0x0000
[4296519.740000] /home/matt/spca5xx-20060101/drivers/usb/zc3xx.h: [zcxx_probeSensor:193] sensor 3w Vga ??? 0x0000
[4296520.016000] /home/matt/spca5xx-20060101/drivers/usb/zc3xx.h: [zcxx_probeSensor:193] sensor 3w Vga ??? 0x0000

lines such as:

[4295076.758000] /home/matt/spca5xx-20060101/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: VIDIOCMCAPTURE: invalid format (7)
and

[4295076.864000] /home/matt/spca5xx-20060101/drivers/usb/zc3xx.h: [zcxx_probeSensor:193] sensor 3w Vga ??? 0x0000
occur when trying to use any program to capture video. the readme file in the 20060101 release indicates that my device id is supported.

ideas? please help.

EDIT:
after looking over the info at http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html it would seem that the problem may be that the sensor can't be detected and is being forced to Tas5130 when according to the web it's a PAS202 sensor. can anyone confirm/deny that using the srong sensor info will cause a hang?

EDIT2:
forced the probesensor function to return the code for the PAS202 sensor, and it didn't work. i'm out of ideas again...

[Huub]

Alright, I've followed the instructions and it worked. For 2 images that is :neutral: (and I didn't change any settings between the working and failing of the webcam). After that I tried fixing it by compiling the latest driver and the 20050906 one, but I keep on getting the following error from 'webcam': "can't get rgb24 data". (since I don't run X on the PC I can only use command line programs). And if it helps anybody understand my problem, another program (camE) gives me the following error: "/dev/video0: no v4l device".

Any chance somebody knows whats going wrong (or what I'm doing wrong)? The webcam still works fine on my Windows PC (and as said, worked well for 2 images on the Linux PC).

[simosx]

Worked like a charm!

Thanks!

[louis_nichols]

Does anyody know how I can adjust image properties? Brightness, contrast and stuff? Possibly while using the webcam in, say kopete... thx

By the way! It works grrreat in kopete. Webcamming cross-platform :D .

[Chris Tucker]

well my webcam in linux plain sucks.. it worked with the spca5xx driver for a really short while.. now for some reason refuses to do that.. "connection error" yet /dev/video0 only exists when the camera is plugged in.
i found out from gnomemeeting that its only working now with an sn9c10x driver. gnomemeeting works fine with this but quality sucks.

im going to be selling a lot of my stuff i dont need on eBay over hte next little while.. i think that camera is going. it will if i can find some nice cheap webcams that have more than a 3fps/ 120x240 capability under linux >.< .. yea thats about all this ones giving me.. im gonna look for some that actually give results of 15fps+ @ 640x480.

[chiefofthejojos]

arnieboy, first of all thank you so much for the huge amount of support you've put into this issue. You rock!
For me, it fails to compile:

brad@a6ubuntu:~/Projects/spca5xx-20060202$ sudo make CC=gcc-3.4
Building SPCA5XX driver for 2.5/2.6 kernel.
Remember: you must have read/write access to your kernel source tree.
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/home/brad/Projects/spca5xx-20060202 CC=gcc-3.4 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/build'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `modules'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/build'
make: *** [default] Error 2


any ideas?

[arnieboy]

arnieboy, first of all thank you so much for the huge amount of support you've put into this issue. You rock!
For me, it fails to compile:

brad@a6ubuntu:~/Projects/spca5xx-20060202$ sudo make CC=gcc-3.4
Building SPCA5XX driver for 2.5/2.6 kernel.
Remember: you must have read/write access to your kernel source tree.
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/home/brad/Projects/spca5xx-20060202 CC=gcc-3.4 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/build'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `modules'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/build'
make: *** [default] Error 2


any ideas?

did u do this step?

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r` build-essential gcc-3.4

u need to have the headers and restricted modules installed before u attempt compiling the spca modules.

[chiefofthejojos]

did u do this step?

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r` build-essential gcc-3.4
u need to have the headers and restricted modules installed before u attempt compiling the spca modules.
Yes I did and it looks like I got everything:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r` build-essential gcc-3.4
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
linux-headers-2.6.12-10-386 is already the newest version.
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.12-10-386 is already the newest version.
build-essential is already the newest version.
gcc-3.4 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
brad@a6ubuntu:~/Projects/spca5xx-20060202$ sudo make clean
rm -r -f drivers/usb/*.o drivers/usb/.spcadecoder.o.cmd \
drivers/usb/.spca5xx.o.cmd *.o *.ko *.mod.* .[a-z]* core *.i
brad@a6ubuntu:~/Projects/spca5xx-20060202$ sudo make CC=gcc-3.4 Building SPCA5XX driver for 2.5/2.6 kernel.
Remember: you must have read/write access to your kernel source tree.
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/home/brad/Projects/spca5xx-20060202 CC=gcc-3.4 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/build'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `modules'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/build'
make: *** [default] Error 2
I also tried with the 20060101 version and I had the same problem.

[arnieboy]

well I would suggest u keep trying with older versions.. till one eventually works.. I dont see any other reason why it shouldn't.

[robinl]

I followed your instruction exactly (except replaced it with the 20060202 package as the 20060101 one doesn't work (not found)) and I can see that it uses spca5xx as the driver in Device Manager but neither GnomeMeeting nor Kopete nor Camorama regonise it. GnomeMeeting say no webcam found, Kopete just display a blue screen and Camorama say "Could not connect to Video Device (/dev/video/0). Please check connnection". Am I doing something wrong? Please help. Thanks.

[gertdesmet]

Hi,

I have followed the instructions to install my Logitech Quickcam Chat but everytime i try to start it, it freezes my computer and i have to manually restart it.

Here is the vendor id of the cam : Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:092c Logitech, Inc.

Edit: I recompiled the driver with the correct GCC version and now it works perfectly :)

[kubuntu2k6]

thank you!

this guide rox :)

[joppe]

Thanks. Guides like this roxxors!
Finally the webcam works, for some reason not as many fps as it had on windows, but good enough for msn!

[ragjaws]

Hello I am trying this solution to install my Logitech webcam after entering the second command....
wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20060101.tar.gz

I am getting the following error, can someone help please...a real newbie here.

-15:21:58-- http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20060101.tar.gz
=> `spca5xx-20060101.tar.gz'
Resolving mxhaard.free.fr... 212.27.63.122
Connecting to mxhaard.free.fr|212.27.63.122|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
15:21:59 ERROR 404: Not Found.

[chiefofthejojos]

Hello I am trying this solution to install my Logitech webcam after entering the second command....
wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20060101.tar.gz

try this instead:

wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20060202.tar.gz

[ragjaws]

try this instead:

wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20060202.tar.gz
Thanks....here is a copy of my 'Terminal' window should it look like this

angus@ubuntuangus:~$ wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20060202.tar.gz
--15:55:23-- http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20060202.tar.gz
=> `spca5xx-20060202.tar.gz'
Resolving mxhaard.free.fr... 212.27.63.122
Connecting to mxhaard.free.fr|212.27.63.122|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 193,391 (189K) [application/x-gzip]
instead:
100%[====================================>] 193,391 55.60K/s ETA 00:00

15:55:27 (55.49 KB/s) - `spca5xx-20060202.tar.gz' saved [193391/193391]

angus@ubuntuangus:~$ wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50xinstead:/Download/spca5xx-20060202.tar.gz
--15:55:57-- http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20060202.tar.gz
=> `spca5xx-20060202.tar.gz.1'
Resolving mxhaard.free.fr... 212.27.63.122
Connecting to mxhaard.free.fr|212.27.63.122|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 193,391 (189K) [application/x-gzip]

100%[====================================>] 193,391 60.12K/s ETA 00:00

15:56:01 (59.99 KB/s) - `spca5xx-20060202.tar.gz.1' saved [193391/193391]

angus@ubuntuangus:~$ tar xvfz spca5xx-20060101.tar.gz
tar: spca5xx-20060101.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverinstead:able: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
angus@ubuntuangus:~$ tar xvfz spca5xx-20060102.tar.gz
tar: spca5xx-20060102.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
angus@ubuntuangus:~$ tar xvfz `spca5xx-20060202.tar.gz.1
> cd spca5xx-20060202
> sudo make CC=gcc-3-4
> sudo modprobe -r spcs5xx
> sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/"uname -r"/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx*
> sudo make install
> sudo modprobe spca5xx
>

[chiefofthejojos]

first of all, it looks like you did several steps twice. I'm not sure why your doing that. Also, after the wget step you will need to adjust the file name accordingly, like so:

wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20060202.tar.gz
tar xvfz spca5xx-20060202.tar.gz
cd spca5xx-20060202
and then continue as before

[gmalac]

error

[caish5]

Well I got the crashing to stop. But really the picture now is to dark to be usefull. I have a noname brand nightvision camera but even with lots of light it is very dark.
Anyone have any ideas.
Thanks for the guide it was very helpfull.....but not quite!!!:p

[arnieboy]

the driver used for all these ICM532 cams is a reverse-engineered hack and can never equal the quality of native windows drivers which are released by the manufacturers. It is important that all of you send emails to your cam manufacturers requesting them to release drivers for linux. Joint petitions are even better.

A website on the lines of www.linuxprinting.org can also be started .. It can be called www.linuxwebcams.org for example.

[JNik]

I get this error when I try to apt-get:

Couldn't find package linux-headers-2.6.12-10-386

And I guess that causes the make command not to work:

giannis@JohnLap:~/Desktop/spca5xx-20060202$ make
Building SPCA5XX driver for 2.5/2.6 kernel.
Remember: you must have read/write access to your kernel source tree.
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/home/giannis/Desktop/spca5xx-20060202 CC=cc modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/build'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `modules'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/build'
make: *** [default] Error 2

[Zangdar]

Hello,

I followed your howto and it works well,
but the day after when I tried :

zangdar@zangdar:~$ sudo modprobe spca5xx
FATAL: Error inserting spca5xx (/lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

I don't understand because before rebooting it worked well...

Thanks for your help !

Zangdar

[ragjaws]

I am also getting this message. I tried both Terminal and root with the same message...

root@ubuntuangus:/home/angus# cd spca5xx-20060202
root@ubuntuangus:/home/angus/spca5xx-20060202# sudo make CC=gcc-3.4
Building SPCA5XX driver for 2.5/2.6 kernel.
Remember: you must have read/write access to your kernel source tree.
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/home/angus/spca5xx-20060202 CC=gcc-3.4 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.12-10-386'
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.12-10-386'
root@ubuntuangus:/home/angus/spca5xx-20060202# sudo modprobe -r spca5xx
FATAL: Module spca5xx not found.
root@ubuntuangus:/home/angus/spca5xx-20060202#

[yaye]

root@ubuntuangus:/home/angus/spca5xx-20060202# sudo modprobe -r spca5xx
FATAL: Module spca5xx not found. ..........

The command:

sudo modprobe -r spca5xx

removes the module from memory. If the module isn't there, you should get this message. Try continuing with the next step.

Ian

[mikelygee]

Following the advice elsewhere on this thread, I've installe the spca5xx drivers, and my Ezonics II camera is now working...nearly. Everything is upside down!

Any advice would be appreciated.

--Mike

[Zangdar]

Help please !!



Hello,

I followed your howto and it works well,
but the day after when I tried :

zangdar@zangdar:~$ sudo modprobe spca5xx
FATAL: Error inserting spca5xx (/lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

I don't understand because before rebooting it worked well...

Thanks for your help !

Zangdar


Even if I make a "make clean" before make...

Thanks.

[yaye]

Thanks again arnieboy. I used the commands with a Labtec Webcam Pro and it worked perfectly.

Ian

[Olisoft]

Hi

Thank you for your "tutorial", my 'Intel Easy Cam' is now working well using the simple command given at the begining of the thread.

But I have two small problems :

-Red-Green-Blue color of image from the webcam is inverted : I see Blue-Green-Red image !

-I have +- 3 images/sec, is it normal ? I get better fps in Ms Windows XP.

Does someone has a solution to one of these problems ?

[patrick295767]

Thank you arnie !!

Your script worked for me !!


====
(after so much posts, and trying ... a single well written script did it !)

(Btw, camorama gaves results
(gqcam not really ))

[patrick295767]

Picture worked too !

[patrick295767]

Another problem now... 'cos trying now on my tower PC ...

I have an ATI all in wonder Tuner Tv video card ...
(not yet installed)

I plugged the usb webcam ... runned ur script
and try camorama and it says no device ...

i can post my dmesg :

294671.940000] ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
[4294671.940000] Probing IDE interface ide0...
[4294672.324000] hda: SAMSUNG SP1604N, ATA DISK drive
[4294672.579000] hdb: MAXTOR 4K080H4, ATA DISK drive
[4294672.630000] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
[4294672.630000] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[4294673.677000] hdd: LITE-ON DVDRW SHW-1635S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[4294673.728000] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
[4294673.728000] Probing IDE interface ide2...
[4294674.241000] Probing IDE interface ide3...
[4294674.753000] Probing IDE interface ide4...
[4294675.265000] Probing IDE interface ide5...
[4294675.782000] hda: max request size: 1024KiB
[4294675.787000] hda: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(33)
[4294675.787000] hda: cache flushes supported
[4294675.787000] /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 < p5 p6 > p2
[4294675.802000] hdb: max request size: 128KiB
[4294675.803000] hdb: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2000KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(33)
[4294675.803000] hdb: cache flushes supported
[4294675.803000] /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 p10 p11 p12 p13 p14 p15 >
[4294675.954000] hdd: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
[4294675.954000] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[4294676.357000] Attempting manual resume
[4294676.357000] swsusp: Suspend partition has wrong signature?
[4294676.393000] ne2k-pci.c:v1.03 9/22/2003 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker
[4294676.393000] http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html
[4294676.393000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:05.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[4294676.394000] eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xe800, IRQ 16, 00:00:B4:98:CE:F7.
[4294676.429000] usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
[4294676.429000] usbcore: registered new driver hub
[4294676.431000] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
[4294676.431000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
[4294676.431000] PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.0, from 11 to 5
[4294676.431000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
[4294676.493000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[4294676.493000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: irq 21, io base 0x0000d800
[4294676.493000] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[4294676.493000] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[4294676.496000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.1[b] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
[4294676.496000] PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.1, from 10 to 5
[4294676.496000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (#2)
[4294676.558000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[4294676.558000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: irq 21, io base 0x0000dc00
[4294676.558000] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[4294676.558000] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[4294676.561000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.2[C] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
[4294676.561000] PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.2, from 10 to 5
[4294676.561000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (#3)
[4294676.623000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[4294676.623000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: irq 21, io base 0x0000e000
[4294676.623000] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[4294676.623000] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[4294676.660000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.3[D] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
[4294676.660000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0
[4294676.660000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
[4294676.660000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: irq 21, io mem 0xdfffff00
[4294676.660000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
[4294676.661000] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[4294676.661000] hub 4-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
[4294676.671000] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[4294677.419000] usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
[4294677.493000] hub 4-1:1.0: USB hub found
[4294677.493000] hub 4-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
[4294677.876000] usb 4-1.2: new low speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
[4294678.045000] usb 4-1.4: new low speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
[4294678.265000] usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[4294678.785000] usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
[4294678.789000] input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Acrox USB & PS/2 Mouse] on usb-0000:00:10.3-1.2
[4294678.797000] input: USB HID v1.10 Joystick [Logitech Logitech Dual Action] on usb-0000:00:10.3-1.4
[4294678.797000] usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
[4294678.797000] drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.01:USB HID core driver
[4294679.253000] ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1])
[4294679.253000] ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 16 throttling states)
[4294679.586000] Attempting manual resume
[4294679.587000] swsusp: Suspend partition has wrong signature?
[4294679.605000] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[4294679.605000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[4295431.297000] md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
[4295435.681000] Adding 746948k swap on /dev/hda6. Priority:-1 extents:1
[4295435.785000] EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
[4295441.924000] parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
[4295441.924000] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP,DMA]
[4295442.016000] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[4295442.072000] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[4295445.879000] device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
[4295446.844000] cdrom: open failed.
[4295525.285000] Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
[4295525.330000] agpgart: Detected VIA KT266/KY266x/KT333 chipset
[4295525.348000] agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe0000000
[4295525.551000] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[4295525.575000] shpchp: shpc_init : shpc_cap_offset == 0
[4295525.575000] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[4295526.013000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:06.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[4295527.104000] gameport: EMU10K1 is pci0000:00:06.1/gameport0, io 0xec00, speed 1169kHz
[4295527.610000] irda_init()
[4295527.610000] NET: Registered protocol family 23
[4295529.551000] Linux video capture interface: v1.00
[4295529.588000] /root/spca5xx-20060202/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: USB SPCA5XX camera found.Logitech QuickCam Express II(SPCA561A)
[4295529.588000] /root/spca5xx-20060202/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: [spca5xx_probe:8188] Camera type S561
[4295529.593000] /root/spca5xx-20060202/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: [spca5xx_getcapability:2176] maxw 352 maxh 288 minw 160 minh 120
[4295529.620000] usbcore: registered new driver spca5xx
[4295529.620000] /root/spca5xx-20060202/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: spca5xx driver 00.57.09 registered
[4295530.043000] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[4295530.058000] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
[4295530.489000] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
[4295530.596000] input: PC Speaker
[4295531.067000] ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
[4295533.040000] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[4295542.126000] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[4295542.126000] Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c02eb280(lo)
[4295542.126000] IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
[4295543.363000] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[4295543.363000] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
[4295543.363000] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
[4295543.531000] ibm_acpi: ec object not found
[4295549.728000] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
[4295553.082000] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[4295554.689000] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[4295554.690000] EXT3-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
[4295554.691000] EXT3 FS on hda5, internal journal
[4295554.691000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[4295567.271000] nfs warning: mount version older than kernel
[4295567.330000] nfs warning: mount version older than kernel
[4295567.378000] nfs warning: mount version older than kernel
[4295753.708000] usbcore: deregistering driver spca5xx
[4295753.743000] /root/spca5xx-20060202/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: driver spca5xx deregistered
[4295760.585000] Linux video capture interface: v1.00
[4295760.609000] /root/spca5xx-20060202/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: USB SPCA5XX camera found.Logitech QuickCam Express II(SPCA561A)
[4295760.609000] /root/spca5xx-20060202/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: [spca5xx_probe:8188] Camera type S561
[4295760.619000] /root/spca5xx-20060202/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: [spca5xx_getcapability:2176] maxw 352 maxh 288 minw 160 minh 120
[4295760.622000] usbcore: registered new driver spca5xx
[4295760.622000] /root/spca5xx-20060202/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: spca5xx driver 00.57.09 registered
[4295825.246000] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 3
[4295831.912000] usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
[4295832.007000] /root/spca5xx-20060202/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: USB SPCA5XX camera found.Logitech QuickCam Express II(SPCA561A)
[4295832.007000] /root/spca5xx-20060202/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: [spca5xx_probe:8188] Camera type S561
[4295832.013000] /root/spca5xx-20060202/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: [spca5xx_getcapability:2176] maxw 352 maxh 288 minw 160 minh 120
root@tower05:/# ls /dev/video*
/dev/video0
root@tower05:/#


Thank you very much of you precious help,

Sincerely & greetings,

Patrick

[Olisoft]

Trying to solve my FPS problem of my webcam with the driver given in this thread, I have programmed a small program in C++ that show if VIDEO4LINUX and the CAMERA is well working on Ubuntu :

-test the camera and V4L initialisation
-if test are OK, it shows the camera image at the highest possible resolution and speed.

It's a 4.6 Mo compiled program (because need several libraries such as LTI-LIB, which are +- hard to install and compile).

If it interests someone ... I don't know if the compiled file will work standalone on another PC ?!?


-Camera opened : OK
-Camera V4L detected : OK
Capabilities of camera : height = 288 , width = 352
-Video overlay obtained : OK
-Max resolution of camera obtained : OK
-Image properties found : OK
Image properties are : width = 352 , height = 288 , bytes/pixel = 3
-Memory for image storage : OK
-Image 0 readed in 826431 microsec
Conversion to LTI-Image : 627 microsec
-Image 1 readed in 622086 microsec
Conversion to LTI-Image : 650 microsec
-Image 2 readed in 670294 microsec
Conversion to LTI-Image : 661 microsec
...

[Cuppa-Chino]

Hi

yes works like a charm, maybe I am thick (probably the case ;) ), thought I would try and use spcagui to configure the cam

cannot seem to compile it - always get (same error some other person posted but I cannot find a fix)

make
cc -DUSE_SDL -O2 -DLINUX -I/usr/include/SDL -D_REENTRANT -DHAVE_LIBJPEG=1 -c -o spcagui.o spcagui.c
In file included from spcagui.c:23:
gui.h:12:23: error: SDL_image.h: No such file or directory
make: *** [spcagui.o] Error 1


any other clever way to configure - have figured it out with camorama - would still like to know how to install spcagui just to learn

[wawa]

Thanks arnieboy, works like a charm.

PS. You may wana update

wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20060301.tar.gz

Cheers

[Al_maverick]

Hi,
this method works for me. Sometimes I have to restart a couple of times, but it works.
The problem is, that after a couple of weeks or months, it depends, I have to run everything to reinstall the webcam.
Any idea what might be the problem. I didnt install anything weird, only the regular upgrades through apt (not the last kernel update)

Anyway, if anyone has an idea where I can start looking, I would really appreciate it.

Tnx!

- Al

[arnieboy]

Hi,
this method works for me. Sometimes I have to restart a couple of times, but it works.
The problem is, that after a couple of weeks or months, it depends, I have to run everything to reinstall the webcam.
Any idea what might be the problem. I didnt install anything weird, only the regular upgrades through apt (not the last kernel update)

Anyway, if anyone has an idea where I can start looking, I would really appreciate it.

Tnx!

- Al
everytime the kernel headers get updated, u need to redo this howto. the good news is that this bug has been fixed in dapper which is just a month away from final release.

[Al_maverick]

everytime the kernel headers get updated, u need to redo this howto. the good news is that this bug has been fixed in dapper which is just a month away from final release.

Ok. I'll just keep doing it :D

By the way, I've noticed you updated the procedure and it is much faster now.
Webcam working again in 5min, including download. Tnx a lot! :)

[WanStiller]

This worked great for me. Thanks!

However, the package has changed again from 20060202 to 20060301. Probably it's best to update the original steps with the comment that you need to verify the current package version or something like that :D

[arnieboy]

first post updated. thanks.

[sandyeggoboy]

I have a Veo Advanced Connect, and i downloaded drivers from http://www.veo.com/Advanced_Connect/drivers.asp

can i use these drivers somehow?

[ramirez]

Thank you so much. I just wanted to play around with ekiga and found this old Logitech ClickSmart, plugged it in and was quite surprised when I saw it was recognized correctly in dmesg. The freezing computer after xawtv -scan brought me down, and your help brought me up again... :D

[irober02]

Worked a charm first time on two separate ubbuntu BB workstations using a Logitech QuickCam IM. Thanks ArnieBoy. Now I can watch the plants grow in my front garden while I'm at work -How did I get along without that ability! ;-)

[SlugO]

I've been getting my Logitech QuickCam Messenger Plus to work with EasyCam 1.35 but I've had to run it again every time I've rebooted my computer. I thought that this tutorial might give me a bit more permanent results and it did, to a certain extent.

Now gqcam recognizes my webcam (after sudo ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video) but Ekiga complains that it can't open the camera.

So could you please tell me how to undo the changes shown in this topic?
Ekiga is a lot more useful application than gqcam :)

[EDIT]
Or maybe I should just be asking advice on how to get Ekiga to work with the camera.
Cos the webcam seems to work fine now since even camorama can use it.
Ekiga just complains:
Error while opening video device Logitech QuickCam USB

Blah blah...

Opening the selected channel failed.
(A translation from Finnish btw)

I tried all the 10 channels with Ekiga but nothing... :confused:
Any ideas?

[SlugO]

LOL :D

Nevermind, it's always the one you least expect or don't notice to try.
In this case channel 0 :)

Now it's working fine, just too bad that Ekiga crops a piece of the video
image so that my head seems to fill the whole screen.

[xbill]

Your HOWTO just work.

Thanx for your work.

Useless post but keep it on!

[isaric]

I'm French :-k
Extract of Driver pour Webcam Philips SPC 200NC/ (http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=23086&p=3)

Before that good. Since the update of the kernel, more means of making go the webcam.
One follows this howto that walks once and then in aMSN -- >V4L: Philips SPS200NC -- >zc301-2 that blocks the computer completely !

Perhaps do you have an idea?

[ddumanis]

Now gnome-meeting works like a charm, but AMSN and Mercury still don't see my webcam. (Although before, running webcam in either one would freeze the system.)

Any thoughts on getting AMSN and Mercury running with my Labtec relic?

[isaric]

Even problem under Dapper

I install it and that goes once on aMSN.


sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r` build-essential gcc-4.0
wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20060402.tar.gz
tar xvfz spca5xx-20060402.tar.gz
cd spca5xx-20060402
sudo make CC=gcc-4.0

sudo modprobe -r spca5xx
sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx*
sudo make install
sudo modprobe spca5xx

With the restarting of the computer and then while launching the webcam on aMSN that blocks the computer.

extract of : http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=250600#p250600 ([Marche plus]Webcam Philips SPC 200NC/)

[SamTheShaman]

Some of you probably might have noticed ICM532 chipset based webcams freezing on breezy (for a comprehensive list refer to: http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html ) when u turn on gnomemeeting or camorama. Herez the fix for that:
FOLLOW ALL THE STEPS! DONT TAKE SHORTCUTS OR MAKE MODIFICATIONS IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING
You need to do the following step by step

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r` build-essential gcc-3.4
wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20060301.tar.gz
tar xvfz spca5xx-20060301.tar.gz
cd spca5xx-20060301
sudo make CC=gcc-3.4
sudo modprobe -r spca5xx
sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx*
sudo make install
sudo modprobe spca5xx
Now you should be all set to use ur ICM532 chipset based webcam.


Is there anywhere else i can get this?
http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html gives me a 404 not found.


I found the link changed to http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20060402.tar.gz

I tried all the commands seem to work I had to changespca5xx-20060301 for spca5xx-20060402

The last command doesn't work.
I get
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/spca5xx-20060402$ sudo modprobe spca5xx
FATAL: Error inserting spca5xx (/lib/modules/2.6.15-19-386/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx.ko): Invalid module format

Any ideas?

[isaric]

I'm french but you look for this ?
http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/

To make function my webcam (chust to try !), I use
spcaview (http://isaric.cof.free.fr/spcaview.xhtml)

because aMSN, camorama and Ekiga do not go. :(

[pataphysician]

this howto workd for me previously, but on a new breezy install, the cameras fail. testing in vlc i get: "v4l demuxer error: chroma selection failed." i've noticed there seems to be a new version of the spca5xx drivers. spca5xx-20060402.tar.gz is the latest at time of posting, whereas the walkthru references spca5xx-20060301.tar.gz. using the 20060301 version instead of the latest worked for me. at the time of posting you can find the functioning drivers here:

http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/oldrelease/spca5xx-20060301.tar.gz

[pataphysician]

The last command doesn't work.
I get
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/spca5xx-20060402$ sudo modprobe spca5xx
FATAL: Error inserting spca5xx (/lib/modules/2.6.15-19-386/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx.ko): Invalid module format

Any ideas?

i got that error when i tried to install under hoary. you need to follow the OP's directions for hoary, instead. pretty much the same thing, except you toss a "make clean" in there somewhere. it's mentioned in this thread somewhere...

[SamTheShaman]

this howto was not written for hoary, hence u shd not have followed it. anyway this is how to do it for hoary (i am not sure it will work but u can give it a try)
assuming u have the headers installed and the gzipped file downloaded, do the following:

cd spca5xx-20050906
make clean
make
sudo modprobe -r spca5xx
sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx*
sudo make install
sudo modprobe spca5xx

if u get any errors at any of the above steps paste it here.
Been trying and trying still no work.
Gone over this thread 3 times did 3 or 4 installs Breezy, Hoary you name it. She don't work.
I am using Dapper.
with canorama I get could not connect to video device(/dev/video0) Please check connection.
The web cam light flashes on my ezonics ezcamIII

[SamTheShaman]

alright try this (ALL) from terminal:

sudo apt-get install gqcam
sudo ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video
gqcam
if the cam runs fine, u are all set. If it doesnt please list the errors here.

Tried that one too.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls video
ls: video: No such file or directory
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls /dev/video*
/dev/video /dev/video0
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install gqcam
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed
gqcam
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 101 not upgraded.
Need to get 37.9kB of archives.
After unpacking 160kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get: 1 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/universe gqcam 0.9.1-3 [37.9kB]
Fetched 37.9kB in 1s (37.2kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package gqcam.
(Reading database ... 90679 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gqcam (from .../gqcam_0.9.1-3_i386.deb) ...
Setting up gqcam (0.9.1-3) ...

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video
ln: creating symbolic link `/dev/video' to `/dev/video0': File exists
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ gqcam
ioctl (VIDIOCSPICT): Invalid argument
ioctl (VIDIOCSWIN): Invalid argument


Program starts up with a black screen

[Doc]

Works great, thanks!!!

[RapidFirePT]

Thanks, Arnad! My Creative WebCam NX Pro is working fine.
We 've installed the latest driver from http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html , the spca5xx-20060402.tar.gz.
Here's the hardware specs:

root@dc:/home/dc# lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 041e:401e Creative Technology, Ltd WebCam NX Pro
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 045e:007d Microsoft Corp. Notebook Optical Mouse
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

dmesg output:
[4296352.036000] Linux video capture interface: v1.00
[4296352.059000] /home/dc/spca5xx-20060402/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: USB SPCA5XX ca mera found. Type Creative NX Pro Zc301+hv7131b
[4296352.059000] /home/dc/spca5xx-20060402/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: [spca5xx_probe :8301] Camera type JPEG
[4296352.253000] /home/dc/spca5xx-20060402/drivers/usb/zc3xx.h: [zc3xx_config:46 4] Find Sensor HV7131B
[4296352.256000] /home/dc/spca5xx-20060402/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: [spca5xx_getca pability:2198] maxw 640 maxh 480 minw 176 minh 144
[4296352.259000] usbcore: registered new driver spca5xx
[4296352.259000] /home/dc/spca5xx-20060402/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: spca5xx driver 00.57.11 registered

We tested with the application GnomeMeeting (Preferences > Video > PluginVideo V4L) . Snapshot attached (me and my colleague from Germany, on Erasmus in Instituto Superior Técnico-Portugal)...:D

[Basheer]

can someone please tell me where I am going wrong?

basheer@Qaaderiyah:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046d:08a6 Logitech, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04e8:326c Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:c506 Logitech, Inc. MX-700 Cordless Mouse Receiver
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
basheer@Qaaderiyah:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r` build-essential gcc-3.4
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
linux-headers-2.6.12-10-686 is already the newest version.
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.12-10-686 is already the newest version.
build-essential is already the newest version.
gcc-3.4 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
basheer@Qaaderiyah:~$ wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/oldrelease/spca5xx-20050906.tar.gz
--16:19:21-- http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/oldrelease/spca5xx-20050906.tar.gz
=> `spca5xx-20050906.tar.gz'
Resolving mxhaard.free.fr... 212.27.63.122
Connecting to mxhaard.free.fr|212.27.63.122|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 179,010 (175K) [application/x-gzip]

100%[====================================>] 179,010 172.57K/s

16:19:23 (172.01 KB/s) - `spca5xx-20050906.tar.gz' saved [179010/179010]

basheer@Qaaderiyah:~$ tar xvfz spca5xx-20050906.tar.gz
spca5xx-20050906/
spca5xx-20050906/Makefile
spca5xx-20050906/RGB-YUV%2fmodule-setting
spca5xx-20050906/README
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spcai2c_init.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spcagamma.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/cx11646.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/sn9cxxx.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/cxlib.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/zc3xx.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/cs2102.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/jpeg_qtables.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/pas106b.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca504_init.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca506.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca533.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca536.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca561.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/mr97311.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/sonix.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca5xx.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spcausb.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/icm105a.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/hv7131b.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/hv7131c.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca501_init.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/pb0330.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/et61xx51.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/jpeg_header.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca508_init.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spcaCompat.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/dummy_cam.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spcadecoder.c
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spcadecoder.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/tas5130c.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/hdcs2020.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca505_init.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca500_init.h
spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/tv8532.h
spca5xx-20050906/CHANGELOG
spca5xx-20050906/README-TV8532
spca5xx-20050906/INSTALL
spca5xx-20050906/cutlog.py
basheer@Qaaderiyah:~$ cd spca5xx-20050906
basheer@Qaaderiyah:~/spca5xx-20050906$ sudo make CC=gcc-3.4
Building SPCA5XX driver for 2.5/2.6 kernel.
Remember: you must have read/write access to your kernel source tree.
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/home/basheer/spca5xx-20050906 CC=gcc-3.4 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.12-10-686'
CC [M] /home/basheer/spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spca5xx.o
CC [M] /home/basheer/spca5xx-20050906/drivers/usb/spcadecoder.o
LD [M] /home/basheer/spca5xx-20050906/spca5xx.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
CC /home/basheer/spca5xx-20050906/spca5xx.mod.o
LD [M] /home/basheer/spca5xx-20050906/spca5xx.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.12-10-686'
basheer@Qaaderiyah:~/spca5xx-20050906$ sudo modprobe -r spca5xx
basheer@Qaaderiyah:~/spca5xx-20050906$ sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx*
basheer@Qaaderiyah:~/spca5xx-20050906$ sudo make install
mkdir -p /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/
rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca50x.ko
rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/et61x.ko
install -c -m 0644 spca5xx.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/
/sbin/depmod -ae
basheer@Qaaderiyah:~/spca5xx-20050906$ sudo modprobe spca5xx

[arnieboy]

do the modprobe again. everything has gone right. if ur webcam still doesnt work, its not supported by this driver.

[Basheer]

it doesnt make sense

it is on that support page

[arnieboy]

ok now I see what went wrong. u are using an archaic version of the driver. check the first post for an updated version.

[polo_step]

wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20060301.tar.gz

Dang. This gets a 404 error.

Man, I'm having fun with dead links tonight, huh?

](*,)

Be cool if I got this "Gamestar" webcam up, though. It does the usual thing of crashing GnomeMeeting.

Fry's had them this weekend for free after rebate so I bagged one. Picture quality in XP is excellent.

[polo_step]

Well, it's probably a good thing that the link was bad; I think Creative may use a different chip in this little camera.

[I'll try to use very Googleable phraseology here, so someone else's searching isn't as futile as mine was...]

What chip does the Creative Game Star webcam have?:

OK, I couldn't find anything on the Creative website or on Google, so I busted open my brand new webcam and looked. Here's what it says on the main chip:

ZC0301 Plus
Vmc-48L-LF
TS0010A2790304

Anyone happen to know what this is? I'm assuming it's not the ICM532. :rolleyes:

[Later:] According to the page at: --

http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html

-- this is a Z-Star device supported by the spca5xx/LE driver set.

[SVwanders]

>Well, it's probably a good thing that the link was bad; I think Creative may use >a different chip in this little camera.

Add oldrelease/ . . . after download and you can get that file.

[SVwanders]

>What chip does the Creative Game Star webcam have?:

I have a Creative NX and once I installed as instructed but adding the different directory it works well. Hope you get yours working.

Tim

[modemsutra]

I installed the spca5xx latest driver but the quality of the image is poor as you can see in my profile pic I'm wondering if someone has a workaround for this or this is the most I can get from this web cam?:roll:

Remember if you compile this driver you have to use the same version of GCC as your kernel otherwise it could not work properly=D>

[erbedo]

Hi all, and thank you arnieboy for your great work.

I have both an ibook G3 and a 32-bit PC, both with breezy. I've also a Logitech quickcam express that is fully supported with the spca5xx driver. So i've followed your howto on the ibook and it worked great! But on the 32-bit, doing all the same instructions, still don't work. It gives me, when i try to start for example gqcam:
bedo@harry:~$ gqcam -v /dev/video0
/dev/video0: No space left on device
bedo@harry:~$

and when i try to start camorama it gives me an error (in GUI) telling me to check /dev/video0.

Any ideas?

[woland]

I'm using Dapper and Chinese Z-star no-name P.O.S webcam.
Used this guide with gcc-3.4 but
sudo modprobe spca5xx returns error. With gcc-4.0 everything went without errors. In both cases /dev/video is not installed.
Any ideas what to? :-k

[sreyan]

The spca5xx-main.c file includes quite a few dirty references. I understand programmers freedoms (i'm not sure this should be patched except for ubuntu specifically and even then only if parents wanted it for their children) but perhaps this is "too human" for ubuntu.

The portion in question begins on line 1356

Although the code in question would be quite amusing on a t-shirt print.

[chuko]

First thing to say:

http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20060301.tar.gz

is broken, but you can try

http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/distfiles/spca5xx-20060301.tar.gz

instead.

Now, i've successfully managed to follow all the steps in this HOWTO but still my camera doesn't work, I've tried mercury, camorama, gqcam and gnomemeeting with no success.

Here is some info of what is happening to me:

stefan@pcchuko:/dev$ lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 06a5:d800 Divio Chicony TwinkleCam
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

stefan@pcchuko:/dev$ ls -l /dev/video*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2006-04-28 19:37 /dev/video -> /dev/video0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 0 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 1 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video1
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 10 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video10
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 11 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video11
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 12 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video12
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 13 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video13
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 14 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video14
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 15 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video15
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 16 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video16
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 17 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video17
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 18 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video18
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 19 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video19
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 2 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video2
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 20 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video20
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 21 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video21
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 22 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video22
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 23 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video23
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 24 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video24
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 25 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video25
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 26 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video26
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 27 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video27
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 28 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video28
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 29 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video29
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 3 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video3
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 30 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video30
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 31 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video31
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 32 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video32
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 33 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video33
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 34 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video34
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 35 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video35
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 36 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video36
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 37 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video37
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 38 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video38
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 39 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video39
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 4 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video4
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 40 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video40
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 41 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video41
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 42 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video42
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 43 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video43
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 44 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video44
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 45 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video45
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 46 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video46
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 47 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video47
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 48 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video48
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 49 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video49
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 5 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video5
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 50 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video50
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 51 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video51
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 52 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video52
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 53 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video53
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 54 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video54
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 55 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video55
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 56 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video56
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 57 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video57
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 58 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video58
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 59 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video59
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 6 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video6
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 60 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video60
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 61 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video61
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 62 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video62
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 63 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video63
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 7 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video7
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 8 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video8
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 9 2006-04-28 19:27 /dev/video9

stefan@pcchuko:/dev$ gqcam
/dev/video: No such device


Thanks for your help


EDIT: No idea why, but now when I type ls /dev/video* it says that such file doesn't exist (nodes are not created)

[erbedo]

Hi, tried another time on a fresh breezy_i386 install and still same problem. Follewd all the steps on Post #21, no errors given but when i launch camorama, gqcam or everithing else i got:
camorama: Could not connect to video device /dev/video0. Please check connection.
gqcam:
bedo@harry:~$ gqcam -v /dev/video0
/dev/video0: No space left on device
bedo@harry:~$

No ideas what's wrong. Please help me :)

[new2linux9]

This is the new location:

http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20060501.tar.gz

Just change the line in red to:

wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20060501.tar.gz

and keep everything else exactly the same for it to work.


sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r` build-essential gcc-3.4
wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20060301.tar.gz
tar xvfz spca5xx-20060301.tar.gz
cd spca5xx-20060301
sudo make CC=gcc-3.4
sudo modprobe -r spca5xx
sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx*
sudo make install
sudo modprobe spca5xx

Well, it worked for me.

[arnieboy]

First post updated. thanks.

[Robert A. Matthews]

The fix sounds great - will it be incorporated into Dapper, so
it all "just works" ?

Robert

[arnieboy]

The fix sounds great - will it be incorporated into Dapper, so
it all "just works" ?

Robert
yes ICM532 webcams already work by default on dapper.

[new2linux9]

First post updated. thanks.

You're more than welcome. Thanks for "automatix", and your "How to's". I'm an ex windows user who still doesn't have a clue about Linux. Anything to make life easier.

[erbedo]

Still not working. Updated spca5xx driver, but acmorama and gqcam always give me an error such:
bedo@harry:/usr/src/spca5xx-20060501$ gqcam -v /dev/video0
/dev/video0: No space left on device
bedo@harry:/usr/src/spca5xx-20060501$

Any ideas? Could it be something strange in the BIOS?

[dhruv_1884]

Arnie boy u r the best

regards
-
dc

[Sponge34]

Hi,
just installed the latest kernel updates and recompiled the ICM drivers having downloaded the new versions (no errors at all and the cam worked ok with the old drivers and kernel) - now the cam only refreshes the top half of the picture, after the first frame.
weirdness indeed.
I haven't yet rebooted, but that is a ******* reflex.
Any ideas?
edit: well the reboot made it worse until I unplugged the cam and re connected it, but it is still very flakey
TIA
S.

[mozzi]

Thanx this worked :-D

[DooDle]

It works for me too!!!
You made me save a lot of time!!!
Thanks a lot. :D

[GQed76]

FATAL: Error inserting spca5xx (/lib/modules/2.6.16-ck3/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx.ko): Invalid module format


:(

[arnieboy]

FATAL: Error inserting spca5xx (/lib/modules/2.6.16-ck3/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx.ko): Invalid module format


:(
u are using a custom made kernel (possibly compiled with gcc 4.0)
you should not compile the spca5xx modules with gcc-3.4
thats why its throwing up the error.

[GQed76]

DUUUH

thanks :)

[Smittey]

I get kind of the same error: FATAL: Error inserting spca5xx (/lib/modules/2.6.15-22-386/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx.ko): Invalid module format

What should I do? Compile with 4.0?

[arnieboy]

I get kind of the same error: FATAL: Error inserting spca5xx (/lib/modules/2.6.15-22-386/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx.ko): Invalid module format

What should I do? Compile with 4.0?
yes

[Smittey]

I did, it gave no error but the camera (a Intel CS120) is still not reckognized :( In fact, the Logitech Sphere that I also have and which worked in Camarera (but no other application) now isn't reckognized by Camarera either (dev/video0 is now not accessible) How do I get the thing uninstalled? :$

[gabbar_singh]

hey!!!
I did exactly what the code said. No error what so ever throughtout the process. But no device found in gnome-meeting or camorama or gqcam..
error is:
"/dev/video: No such file or directory"
there is no /dev/video or /dev/video0
I also tried installing the older versions.. still doesnt work..
webcam make is Chicony Twinklecam DC-2110... while going through this thread.. i saw people being also to install it successfully..
I am on amd64-generic platform.. is it supported???
Any inputs..
-gabbar
EDIT: when I do "lsmod" I see spca5xxx module loaded but not used by any...... there was another module "videodev" which was used by "spca5xxx".. if this helps

[EdThaSlayer]

Thanks for the information. Now i can use my webcam to chat with people!
ur a...webcam saver!(now its actually worth something)

[SmokinJuan]

arnieboy, your patience is commendable and your instructions worked wonders on my system. gqcam and canorama no longer hang the system, but the video is black. If I turn the brightness up the video is maroon. No errors are reported. The lense cap is off. /dev/video0 exists. My cam is in the list of supported.
lsusb provides:

smokinjuan@compaq:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0733:0401 ViewQuest Technologies, Inc. CS330 WebCam
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

I'm too close to give up now!

[arnieboy]

arnieboy, your patience is commendable and your instructions worked wonders on my system. gqcam and canorama no longer hang the system, but the video is black. If I turn the brightness up the video is maroon. No errors are reported. The lense cap is off. /dev/video0 exists. My cam is in the list of supported.
lsusb provides:

smokinjuan@compaq:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0733:0401 ViewQuest Technologies, Inc. CS330 WebCam
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

I'm too close to give up now!
whatever picture quality you are getting is the best possible right now with the spca5xx drivers.. what you must understand is that these drivers are based on a lot of reverse-engineered stuff.. webcam manufacturers will not release their hardware specs to us and hence driver writers have to keep "guessing" and reverse engineering these drivers.
For the time being, some webcams (read some models of logitech) are better supported than others.. we have to live with that till something better happens.

[AlvaroBF]

I can't get my Creative Webcam NX Pro working, I'm Using Dapper AMD64

alvaro@ubuntu:~$ uname -r
2.6.15-22-amd64-k8

alvaro@ubuntu:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 041e:401e Creative Technology, Ltd WebCam NX

alvaro@ubuntu:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
spca5xx 666236 0
videodev 13056 1 spca5xx

alvaro@ubuntu:~$ gqcam
/dev/video: No space left on device

alvaro@ubuntu:~$ webcam
reading config file: /home/alvaro/.webcamrc
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No space left on device
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No space left on device
v4l: open /dev/video0: No space left on device
no grabber device available




Anyone knows the reason?

[dolny]

delete this post.

[chuko]

hey!!!
I did exactly what the code said. No error what so ever throughtout the process. But no device found in gnome-meeting or camorama or gqcam..
error is:
"/dev/video: No such file or directory"
there is no /dev/video or /dev/video0
I also tried installing the older versions.. still doesnt work..
webcam make is Chicony Twinklecam DC-2110... while going through this thread.. i saw people being also to install it successfully..
I am on amd64-generic platform.. is it supported???
Any inputs..
-gabbar
EDIT: when I do "lsmod" I see spca5xxx module loaded but not used by any...... there was another module "videodev" which was used by "spca5xxx".. if this helps


Same camera and problem here!!!! (in an i386)
I've already posted before, but no reply ](*,)

[arnieboy]

gabbar_singh and chuko:
Chicony Twinklecam is not supported by the spca5xx driver (It's based on the sonix chipset) . You need a different driver for that called "sn9c102"
for v4l2, check the following site out:
http://www.linux-projects.org/modules/mydownloads/viewcat.php?cid=2
for v4l1 check out the following:
http://sonix.sourceforge.net/
Hope this helps.

[medication]

Thanks! This 'HowTo' worked great for me. Just for anyone else using the same or similar setup here's my information:
AMD64 3200+
Breezy 64
Logitech QuickCam Communicate STX

Thanks again, this was completely painless...

[Geoneil]

Cheers Arnie - that even sorted out the "invalid module" error from the other (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=383244&postcount=21)thread. Now just some cam-specific problems to sort...

[berserker]

This may help out some people who receive errors when trying to access their webcams:

1. Mine didn't work while plugged into the USB port of my Dell monitor. I had to plug it directly into my USB card.

2. Video in Gnomemeeting wouldn't work under V4L2. I had to select V4L.

3. Video in Gnomemeeting wouldn't work under Channel 1. I had to select Channel 0.

Hope this helps out some who struggled (like I did) to enable a webcam in Ubuntu.

[erbedo]

Any ideas for my problem?

bedo@harry:~/universita/programmazione$ gqcam -v /dev/video0
/dev/video0: No space left on device
bedo@harry:~/universita/programmazione$

And problems also with camorama and xawtv...

[arnieboy]

Any ideas for my problem?

bedo@harry:~/universita/programmazione$ gqcam -v /dev/video0
/dev/video0: No space left on device
bedo@harry:~/universita/programmazione$

And problems also with camorama and xawtv...
whats the make and model of your webcam?

[jackb]

hello. I have logitech communicate STX and I have the same problem. when I gave:

[jacek@pldmachine~]$ sudo gqcam --video /dev/video0
/dev/video: No space left on device

BTW I'm from poland and I have PLD-linux (pld-linux.org), with 2.6.14.7-4 kernel

apologize for my english

[AlvaroBF]

Same problem here with a Webcam NX PRO ( Creative )

[jackb]

I have solved problem with my webcam. I must directly connect my webcam for my PC. but I have my pc behind wall. On saparate room, so I can't connect my webcam for my PC, when I connect webcam to usb hub with keyboard and mouse it's don't work, but when i connect webcam to usb hub and keybord and mouse for other usb hub, everything it works , but usb hub for webcam must have extra power supply.

apologize for my engish

[dolny]

Thanks for this howto.

[erbedo]

whats the make and model of your webcam?

I've a logitech quickcam express. It works fine on another i386 machine with same step followed for compiling the driver. It's directly connected to the PC, no hub beetween..
Bye

[bennett]

I have been trying to get my Logitech Quickcam for Notebooks Deluxe (which I *believe* uses the ICM532 chipset but it seems hard to know for sure) working with Breezy, on a Dell Inspiron 1300. I have tried a number of approaches & drivers etc. with no luck <frustrated sigh>.

I followed the directions above but when I try to make CC=gcc-3.4, I am told in no uncertain terms:
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

Can anyone out there tell me: NOW WHAT???!!!

[Yoric]

My problem is slightly different from what's described at the beginning of this thread.

My configuration:

Dapper Drake
QuickCam Messenger, with usb_device.product_id 2288 (0x8f0)
Kernel 2.6.15-23-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT
Module quickcam, installed by easycam2.


The webcam works fine with camorama. However, a single press on its button causes an immediate kernel panic, even from the console and without launching camorama.

I'd like to avoid patching my kernel modules with the wrong fix for my problem. Would your howto help ?

[Yoric]

I followed the directions above but when I try to make CC=gcc-3.4, I am told in no uncertain terms:
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

Can anyone out there tell me: NOW WHAT???!!!

Best guess: are you in the correct directory when you launch compilation ?

[arnieboy]

My problem is slightly different from what's described at the beginning of this thread.

My configuration:

Dapper Drake
QuickCam Messenger, with usb_device.product_id 2288 (0x8f0)
Kernel 2.6.15-23-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT
Module quickcam, installed by easycam2.


The webcam works fine with camorama. However, a single press on its button causes an immediate kernel panic, even from the console and without launching camorama.

I'd like to avoid patching my kernel modules with the wrong fix for my problem. Would your howto help ?
yes.

[dave.goodfellow]

I'd appreciate your help please Arnieboy.
I get an error on the last terminal command you give.
Here's a paste of my terminal
dave@dave-ubuntu:~/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers- `uname -r` linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r` build-essential gcc-3.4
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-23-686 is already the newest version.
build-essential is already the newest version.
The following extra packages will be installed:
cpp-3.4 gcc-3.4-base linux-headers-2.6.15-23
Suggested packages:
gcc-3.4-doc libc6-dev-amd64 lib64gcc1
The following NEW packages will be installed
cpp-3.4 gcc-3.4 gcc-3.4-base linux-headers-2.6.15-23
linux-headers-2.6.15-23-686
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 10.1MB of archives.
After unpacking 88.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get: 1 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main gcc-3.4-base 3.4.6-1ubuntu2 [164kB]
Get: 2 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main cpp-3.4 3.4.6-1ubuntu2 [1687kB]
Get: 3 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main gcc-3.4 3.4.6-1ubuntu2 [494kB]
Get: 4 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main linux-headers-2.6.15-23 2.6.15-23.3 9 [6895kB]
Get: 5 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main linux-headers-2.6.15-23-686 2.6.15- 23.39 [852kB]
Fetched 10.1MB in 43s (231kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package gcc-3.4-base.
(Reading database ... 93158 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gcc-3.4-base (from .../gcc-3.4-base_3.4.6-1ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
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Selecting previously deselected package linux-headers-2.6.15-23.
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Selecting previously deselected package linux-headers-2.6.15-23-686.
Unpacking linux-headers-2.6.15-23-686 (from .../linux-headers-2.6.15-23-686_2.6. 15-23.39_i386.deb) ...
Setting up gcc-3.4-base (3.4.6-1ubuntu2) ...
Setting up cpp-3.4 (3.4.6-1ubuntu2) ...
Setting up gcc-3.4 (3.4.6-1ubuntu2) ...
Setting up linux-headers-2.6.15-23 (2.6.15-23.39) ...

Setting up linux-headers-2.6.15-23-686 (2.6.15-23.39) ...
dave@dave-ubuntu:~/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501$ wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x /Download/spca5xx-20060501.tar.gz
--18:24:09-- http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20060501.tar.gz
=> `spca5xx-20060501.tar.gz'
Resolving mxhaard.free.fr... 212.27.63.122
Connecting to mxhaard.free.fr|212.27.63.122|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 192,817 (188K) [application/x-gzip]

100%[====================================>] 192,817 208.20K/s

18:24:10 (207.88 KB/s) - `spca5xx-20060501.tar.gz' saved [192817/192817]

dave@dave-ubuntu:~/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501$ tar xvfz spca5xx-20060501.tar.gz
spca5xx-20060501/
spca5xx-20060501/README-KERNEL-UPTO-2.6.16
spca5xx-20060501/Makefile
spca5xx-20060501/LICENSE
spca5xx-20060501/RGB-YUV%2fmodule-setting
spca5xx-20060501/README
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca500.dat
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca501.dat
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca505.dat
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca508.dat
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spcagamma.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/cx11646.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/sn9cxxx.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/pac207.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/cxlib.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/zc3xx.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/cs2102.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/jpeg_qtables.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/pas106b.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca506.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca561.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/mr97311.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/sonix.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca5xx.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spcausb.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/icm105a.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/hv7131b.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/hv7131c.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca501_init.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/pb0330.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/ov7630c.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/et61xx51.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/sp5xxfw2.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/jpeg_header.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca508_init.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spcaCompat.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/dummy_cam.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spcadecoder.c
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spcadecoder.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/tas5130c.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/sp5xxfw2.dat
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/hdcs2020.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca505_init.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca500_init.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/tv8532.h
spca5xx-20060501/CHANGELOG
tar: spca5xx-20060501/drivers: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
spca5xx-20060501/README-SONIX
spca5xx-20060501/README-TV8532
spca5xx-20060501/INSTALL
spca5xx-20060501/cutlog.py
dave@dave-ubuntu:~/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501$ cd spca5xx-20060501
dave@dave-ubuntu:~/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx-20060501$ sudo make CC=gcc-3 .4
Building SPCA5XX driver for 2.5/2.6 kernel.
Remember: you must have read/write access to your kernel source tree.
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/home/dave/Desktop/spca5xx-2006050 1/spca5xx-20060501 CC=gcc-3.4 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-23-686'
CC [M] /home/dave/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca5 xx.o
CC [M] /home/dave/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spcad ecoder.o
LD [M] /home/dave/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
CC /home/dave/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx.mod.o
LD [M] /home/dave/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-23-686'
dave@dave-ubuntu:~/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx-20060501$ sudo modprobe -r s pca5xx
dave@dave-ubuntu:~/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx-20060501$ sudo rm -rf /lib/m odules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx*
dave@dave-ubuntu:~/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx-20060501$ sudo make install
mkdir -p /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/
rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca50x.ko
rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/et61x.ko
install -c -m 0644 spca5xx.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/
/sbin/depmod -ae
dave@dave-ubuntu:~/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx-20060501$ sudo modprobe spca 5xx
FATAL: Error inserting spca5xx (/lib/modules/2.6.15-23-686/kernel/drivers/usb/me dia/spca5xx.ko): Invalid module format
dave@dave-ubuntu:~/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx-20060501$ sudo modprobe spca 5xx
FATAL: Error inserting spca5xx (/lib/modules/2.6.15-23-686/kernel/drivers/usb/me dia/spca5xx.ko): Invalid module format
dave@dave-ubuntu:~/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx-20060501$

My webcam is creative live and I'm running dapper drake.
Any help appreciated
Cheers Dave.

[arnieboy]

I'd appreciate your help please Arnieboy.
I get an error on the last terminal command you give.
Here's a paste of my terminal
dave@dave-ubuntu:~/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers- `uname -r` linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r` build-essential gcc-3.4
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-23-686 is already the newest version.
build-essential is already the newest version.
The following extra packages will be installed:
cpp-3.4 gcc-3.4-base linux-headers-2.6.15-23
Suggested packages:
gcc-3.4-doc libc6-dev-amd64 lib64gcc1
The following NEW packages will be installed
cpp-3.4 gcc-3.4 gcc-3.4-base linux-headers-2.6.15-23
linux-headers-2.6.15-23-686
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 10.1MB of archives.
After unpacking 88.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get: 1 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main gcc-3.4-base 3.4.6-1ubuntu2 [164kB]
Get: 2 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main cpp-3.4 3.4.6-1ubuntu2 [1687kB]
Get: 3 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main gcc-3.4 3.4.6-1ubuntu2 [494kB]
Get: 4 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main linux-headers-2.6.15-23 2.6.15-23.3 9 [6895kB]
Get: 5 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main linux-headers-2.6.15-23-686 2.6.15- 23.39 [852kB]
Fetched 10.1MB in 43s (231kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package gcc-3.4-base.
(Reading database ... 93158 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gcc-3.4-base (from .../gcc-3.4-base_3.4.6-1ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package cpp-3.4.
Unpacking cpp-3.4 (from .../cpp-3.4_3.4.6-1ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package gcc-3.4.
Unpacking gcc-3.4 (from .../gcc-3.4_3.4.6-1ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package linux-headers-2.6.15-23.
Unpacking linux-headers-2.6.15-23 (from .../linux-headers-2.6.15-23_2.6.15-23.39 _i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package linux-headers-2.6.15-23-686.
Unpacking linux-headers-2.6.15-23-686 (from .../linux-headers-2.6.15-23-686_2.6. 15-23.39_i386.deb) ...
Setting up gcc-3.4-base (3.4.6-1ubuntu2) ...
Setting up cpp-3.4 (3.4.6-1ubuntu2) ...
Setting up gcc-3.4 (3.4.6-1ubuntu2) ...
Setting up linux-headers-2.6.15-23 (2.6.15-23.39) ...

Setting up linux-headers-2.6.15-23-686 (2.6.15-23.39) ...
dave@dave-ubuntu:~/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501$ wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x /Download/spca5xx-20060501.tar.gz
--18:24:09-- http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20060501.tar.gz
=> `spca5xx-20060501.tar.gz'
Resolving mxhaard.free.fr... 212.27.63.122
Connecting to mxhaard.free.fr|212.27.63.122|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 192,817 (188K) [application/x-gzip]

100%[====================================>] 192,817 208.20K/s

18:24:10 (207.88 KB/s) - `spca5xx-20060501.tar.gz' saved [192817/192817]

dave@dave-ubuntu:~/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501$ tar xvfz spca5xx-20060501.tar.gz
spca5xx-20060501/
spca5xx-20060501/README-KERNEL-UPTO-2.6.16
spca5xx-20060501/Makefile
spca5xx-20060501/LICENSE
spca5xx-20060501/RGB-YUV%2fmodule-setting
spca5xx-20060501/README
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca500.dat
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca501.dat
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca505.dat
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca508.dat
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spcagamma.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/cx11646.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/sn9cxxx.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/pac207.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/cxlib.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/zc3xx.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/cs2102.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/jpeg_qtables.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/pas106b.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca506.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca561.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/mr97311.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/sonix.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca5xx.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spcausb.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/icm105a.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/hv7131b.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/hv7131c.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca501_init.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/pb0330.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/ov7630c.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/et61xx51.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/sp5xxfw2.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/jpeg_header.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca508_init.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spcaCompat.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/dummy_cam.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spcadecoder.c
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spcadecoder.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/tas5130c.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/sp5xxfw2.dat
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/hdcs2020.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca505_init.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca500_init.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/tv8532.h
spca5xx-20060501/CHANGELOG
tar: spca5xx-20060501/drivers: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
spca5xx-20060501/README-SONIX
spca5xx-20060501/README-TV8532
spca5xx-20060501/INSTALL
spca5xx-20060501/cutlog.py
dave@dave-ubuntu:~/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501$ cd spca5xx-20060501
dave@dave-ubuntu:~/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx-20060501$ sudo make CC=gcc-3 .4
Building SPCA5XX driver for 2.5/2.6 kernel.
Remember: you must have read/write access to your kernel source tree.
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/home/dave/Desktop/spca5xx-2006050 1/spca5xx-20060501 CC=gcc-3.4 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-23-686'
CC [M] /home/dave/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca5 xx.o
CC [M] /home/dave/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spcad ecoder.o
LD [M] /home/dave/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
CC /home/dave/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx.mod.o
LD [M] /home/dave/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-23-686'
dave@dave-ubuntu:~/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx-20060501$ sudo modprobe -r s pca5xx
dave@dave-ubuntu:~/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx-20060501$ sudo rm -rf /lib/m odules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx*
dave@dave-ubuntu:~/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx-20060501$ sudo make install
mkdir -p /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/
rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca50x.ko
rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/et61x.ko
install -c -m 0644 spca5xx.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/
/sbin/depmod -ae
dave@dave-ubuntu:~/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx-20060501$ sudo modprobe spca 5xx
FATAL: Error inserting spca5xx (/lib/modules/2.6.15-23-686/kernel/drivers/usb/me dia/spca5xx.ko): Invalid module format
dave@dave-ubuntu:~/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx-20060501$ sudo modprobe spca 5xx
FATAL: Error inserting spca5xx (/lib/modules/2.6.15-23-686/kernel/drivers/usb/me dia/spca5xx.ko): Invalid module format
dave@dave-ubuntu:~/Desktop/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx-20060501$

My webcam is creative live and I'm running dapper drake.
Any help appreciated
Cheers Dave.
The howto is for Breezy (not Dapper). The spca5xx modules work fine on Dapper by default.
However, if you still want to compile the modules try the following from the directory in which the make file exists:

sudo make clean
sudo make
sudo modprobe -r spca5xx
sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx*
sudo make install
sudo modprobe spca5xx

and let me know how it goes.

[dave.goodfellow]

Thanks for getting back, that was really quick.
Here's my terminal:
dave@dave-ubuntu:~$ wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20060501.tar.gz
--19:00:35-- http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20060501.tar.gz
=> `spca5xx-20060501.tar.gz'
Resolving mxhaard.free.fr... 212.27.63.122
Connecting to mxhaard.free.fr|212.27.63.122|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 192,817 (188K) [application/x-gzip]

100%[====================================>] 192,817 188.95K/s

19:00:36 (188.39 KB/s) - `spca5xx-20060501.tar.gz' saved [192817/192817]

dave@dave-ubuntu:~$ tar xvfz spca5xx-20060501.tar.gz
spca5xx-20060501/
spca5xx-20060501/README-KERNEL-UPTO-2.6.16
spca5xx-20060501/Makefile
spca5xx-20060501/LICENSE
spca5xx-20060501/RGB-YUV%2fmodule-setting
spca5xx-20060501/README
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca500.dat
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca501.dat
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca505.dat
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca508.dat
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spcagamma.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/cx11646.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/sn9cxxx.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/pac207.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/cxlib.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/zc3xx.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/cs2102.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/jpeg_qtables.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/pas106b.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca506.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca561.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/mr97311.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/sonix.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca5xx.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spcausb.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/icm105a.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/hv7131b.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/hv7131c.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca501_init.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/pb0330.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/ov7630c.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/et61xx51.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/sp5xxfw2.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/jpeg_header.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca508_init.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spcaCompat.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/dummy_cam.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spcadecoder.c
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spcadecoder.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/tas5130c.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/sp5xxfw2.dat
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/hdcs2020.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca505_init.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca500_init.h
spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/tv8532.h
spca5xx-20060501/CHANGELOG
tar: spca5xx-20060501/drivers: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
spca5xx-20060501/README-SONIX
spca5xx-20060501/README-TV8532
spca5xx-20060501/INSTALL
spca5xx-20060501/cutlog.py
dave@dave-ubuntu:~$ cd spca5xx-20060501
dave@dave-ubuntu:~/spca5xx-20060501$ sudo make clean
Password:
rm -r -f drivers/usb/*.o drivers/usb/.spcadecoder.o.cmd \
drivers/usb/.spca5xx.o.cmd *.o *.ko *.mod.* .[a-z]* core *.i
dave@dave-ubuntu:~/spca5xx-20060501$ sudo make
Building SPCA5XX driver for 2.5/2.6 kernel.
Remember: you must have read/write access to your kernel source tree.
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/home/dave/spca5xx-20060501 CC=cc modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-23-686'
CC [M] /home/dave/spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca5xx.o
CC [M] /home/dave/spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spcadecoder.o
LD [M] /home/dave/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
CC /home/dave/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx.mod.o
LD [M] /home/dave/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-23-686'
dave@dave-ubuntu:~/spca5xx-20060501$ sudo modprobe -r spca5xx
dave@dave-ubuntu:~/spca5xx-20060501$ sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx*
dave@dave-ubuntu:~/spca5xx-20060501$ sudo make install
mkdir -p /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/
rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca50x.ko
rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/et61x.ko
install -c -m 0644 spca5xx.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/
/sbin/depmod -ae
dave@dave-ubuntu:~/spca5xx-20060501$ sudo modprobe spca5xx
dave@dave-ubuntu:~/spca5xx-20060501$

What next? Do I need to reboot?

Dave

[arnieboy]

no you dont need to reboot. The module was successfully inserted. now just plug in your webcam and if it is supported, you will see it working if you turn on camorama or anything similar.

[dave.goodfellow]

no you dont need to reboot. The module was successfully inserted. now just plug in your webcam and if it is supported, you will see it working if you turn on camorama or anything similar.

dave@dave-ubuntu:~/spca5xx-20060501$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 005: ID 041e:403c Creative Technology, Ltd WebCam Live! Ultra
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 045e:006a Microsoft Corp.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Error (camorama)
Could not conect to video device (/dev/video0).
Please check connection.

It's obviously plugged in looking at lsusb
but
dave@dave-ubuntu:/dev$ cd /dev/video0
bash: cd: /dev/video0: No such file or directory

Any ideas?
Dave

[arnieboy]

dave@dave-ubuntu:~/spca5xx-20060501$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 005: ID 041e:403c Creative Technology, Ltd WebCam Live! Ultra
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 045e:006a Microsoft Corp.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Error (camorama)
Could not conect to video device (/dev/video0).
Please check connection.

It's obviously plugged in looking at lsusb
but
dave@dave-ubuntu:/dev$ cd /dev/video0
bash: cd: /dev/video0: No such file or directory

Any ideas?
Dave
go to the /dev directory and get a list of files starting with "video"
if you find a file like /dev/video
do the following:

sudo ln -s /dev/video /dev/video0
now run camorama again

[dave.goodfellow]

dave@dave-ubuntu:~$ cd /dev
dave@dave-ubuntu:/dev$ ls
acpi ptyaa ptype ptyv2 ram14 tty60 ttyed ttyS35 ttyw5
admmidi ptyab ptypf ptyv3 ram15 tty61 ttyee ttyS36 ttyw6
adsp ptyac ptyq0 ptyv4 ram2 tty62 ttyef ttyS37 ttyw7
agpgart ptyad ptyq1 ptyv5 ram3 tty63 ttyp0 ttyS38 ttyw8
amidi ptyae ptyq2 ptyv6 ram4 tty7 ttyp1 ttyS39 ttyw9
audio ptyaf ptyq3 ptyv7 ram5 tty8 ttyp2 ttys4 ttywa
bus ptyb0 ptyq4 ptyv8 ram6 tty9 ttyp3 ttyS4 ttywb
cdrom ptyb1 ptyq5 ptyv9 ram7 ttya0 ttyp4 ttyS40 ttywc
cdrw ptyb2 ptyq6 ptyva ram8 ttya1 ttyp5 ttyS41 ttywd
console ptyb3 ptyq7 ptyvb ram9 ttya2 ttyp6 ttyS42 ttywe
core ptyb4 ptyq8 ptyvc random ttya3 ttyp7 ttyS43 ttywf
disk ptyb5 ptyq9 ptyvd rtc ttya4 ttyp8 ttyS44 ttyx0
dmmidi ptyb6 ptyqa ptyve sda ttya5 ttyp9 ttyS45 ttyx1
dri ptyb7 ptyqb ptyvf sda1 ttya6 ttypa ttyS46 ttyx2
dsp ptyb8 ptyqc ptyw0 sda2 ttya7 ttypb ttyS47 ttyx3
dvd ptyb9 ptyqd ptyw1 sda3 ttya8 ttypc ttys5 ttyx4
dvdrw ptyba ptyqe ptyw2 sda5 ttya9 ttypd ttyS5 ttyx5
evms ptybb ptyqf ptyw3 sequencer ttyaa ttype ttys6 ttyx6
fb0 ptybc ptyr0 ptyw4 sequencer2 ttyab ttypf ttyS6 ttyx7
fd ptybd ptyr1 ptyw5 sg0 ttyac ttyq0 ttys7 ttyx8
fd0 ptybe ptyr2 ptyw6 shm ttyad ttyq1 ttyS7 ttyx9
full ptybf ptyr3 ptyw7 snd ttyae ttyq2 ttys8 ttyxa
hda ptyc0 ptyr4 ptyw8 sndstat ttyaf ttyq3 ttyS8 ttyxb
hdb ptyc1 ptyr5 ptyw9 stderr ttyb0 ttyq4 ttys9 ttyxc
hpet ptyc2 ptyr6 ptywa stdin ttyb1 ttyq5 ttyS9 ttyxd
hwrng ptyc3 ptyr7 ptywb stdout ttyb2 ttyq6 ttysa ttyxe
initctl ptyc4 ptyr8 ptywc tty ttyb3 ttyq7 ttysb ttyxf
input ptyc5 ptyr9 ptywd tty0 ttyb4 ttyq8 ttysc ttyy0
kmem ptyc6 ptyra ptywe tty1 ttyb5 ttyq9 ttysd ttyy1
kmsg ptyc7 ptyrb ptywf tty10 ttyb6 ttyqa ttyse ttyy2
log ptyc8 ptyrc ptyx0 tty11 ttyb7 ttyqb ttysf ttyy3
loop ptyc9 ptyrd ptyx1 tty12 ttyb8 ttyqc ttyt0 ttyy4
lp0 ptyca ptyre ptyx2 tty13 ttyb9 ttyqd ttyt1 ttyy5
lvm ptycb ptyrf ptyx3 tty14 ttyba ttyqe ttyt2 ttyy6
MAKEDEV ptycc ptys0 ptyx4 tty15 ttybb ttyqf ttyt3 ttyy7
mapper ptycd ptys1 ptyx5 tty16 ttybc ttyr0 ttyt4 ttyy8
md0 ptyce ptys2 ptyx6 tty17 ttybd ttyr1 ttyt5 ttyy9
md1 ptycf ptys3 ptyx7 tty18 ttybe ttyr2 ttyt6 ttyya
md10 ptyd0 ptys4 ptyx8 tty19 ttybf ttyr3 ttyt7 ttyyb
md11 ptyd1 ptys5 ptyx9 tty2 ttyc0 ttyr4 ttyt8 ttyyc
md12 ptyd2 ptys6 ptyxa tty20 ttyc1 ttyr5 ttyt9 ttyyd
md13 ptyd3 ptys7 ptyxb tty21 ttyc2 ttyr6 ttyta ttyye
md14 ptyd4 ptys8 ptyxc tty22 ttyc3 ttyr7 ttytb ttyyf
md15 ptyd5 ptys9 ptyxd tty23 ttyc4 ttyr8 ttytc ttyz0
md16 ptyd6 ptysa ptyxe tty24 ttyc5 ttyr9 ttytd ttyz1
md17 ptyd7 ptysb ptyxf tty25 ttyc6 ttyra ttyte ttyz2
md18 ptyd8 ptysc ptyy0 tty26 ttyc7 ttyrb ttytf ttyz3
md19 ptyd9 ptysd ptyy1 tty27 ttyc8 ttyrc ttyu0 ttyz4
md2 ptyda ptyse ptyy2 tty28 ttyc9 ttyrd ttyu1 ttyz5
md20 ptydb ptysf ptyy3 tty29 ttyca ttyre ttyu2 ttyz6
md21 ptydc ptyt0 ptyy4 tty3 ttycb ttyrf ttyu3 ttyz7
md22 ptydd ptyt1 ptyy5 tty30 ttycc ttys0 ttyu4 ttyz8
md23 ptyde ptyt2 ptyy6 tty31 ttycd ttyS0 ttyu5 ttyz9
md24 ptydf ptyt3 ptyy7 tty32 ttyce ttys1 ttyu6 ttyza
md3 ptye0 ptyt4 ptyy8 tty33 ttycf ttyS1 ttyu7 ttyzb
md4 ptye1 ptyt5 ptyy9 tty34 ttyd0 ttyS10 ttyu8 ttyzc
md5 ptye2 ptyt6 ptyya tty35 ttyd1 ttyS11 ttyu9 ttyzd
md6 ptye3 ptyt7 ptyyb tty36 ttyd2 ttyS12 ttyua ttyze
md7 ptye4 ptyt8 ptyyc tty37 ttyd3 ttyS13 ttyub ttyzf
md8 ptye5 ptyt9 ptyyd tty38 ttyd4 ttyS14 ttyuc urandom
md9 ptye6 ptyta ptyye tty39 ttyd5 ttyS15 ttyud vcs
mem ptye7 ptytb ptyyf tty4 ttyd6 ttyS16 ttyue vcs1
midi ptye8 ptytc ptyz0 tty40 ttyd7 ttyS17 ttyuf vcs2
mixer ptye9 ptytd ptyz1 tty41 ttyd8 ttyS18 ttyv0 vcs3
net ptyea ptyte ptyz2 tty42 ttyd9 ttyS19 ttyv1 vcs4
null ptyeb ptytf ptyz3 tty43 ttyda ttys2 ttyv2 vcs5
nvidia0 ptyec ptyu0 ptyz4 tty44 ttydb ttyS2 ttyv3 vcs6
nvidiactl ptyed ptyu1 ptyz5 tty45 ttydc ttyS20 ttyv4 vcs7
parport0 ptyee ptyu2 ptyz6 tty46 ttydd ttyS21 ttyv5 vcsa
port ptyef ptyu3 ptyz7 tty47 ttyde ttyS22 ttyv6 vcsa1
ppp ptyp0 ptyu4 ptyz8 tty48 ttydf ttyS23 ttyv7 vcsa2
psaux ptyp1 ptyu5 ptyz9 tty49 ttye0 ttyS24 ttyv8 vcsa3
ptmx ptyp2 ptyu6 ptyza tty5 ttye1 ttyS25 ttyv9 vcsa4
pts ptyp3 ptyu7 ptyzb tty50 ttye2 ttyS26 ttyva vcsa5
ptya0 ptyp4 ptyu8 ptyzc tty51 ttye3 ttyS27 ttyvb vcsa6
ptya1 ptyp5 ptyu9 ptyzd tty52 ttye4 ttyS28 ttyvc vcsa7
ptya2 ptyp6 ptyua ptyze tty53 ttye5 ttyS29 ttyvd xconsole
ptya3 ptyp7 ptyub ptyzf tty54 ttye6 ttys3 ttyve zero
ptya4 ptyp8 ptyuc ram0 tty55 ttye7 ttyS3 ttyvf
ptya5 ptyp9 ptyud ram1 tty56 ttye8 ttyS30 ttyw0
ptya6 ptypa ptyue ram10 tty57 ttye9 ttyS31 ttyw1
ptya7 ptypb ptyuf ram11 tty58 ttyea ttyS32 ttyw2
ptya8 ptypc ptyv0 ram12 tty59 ttyeb ttyS33 ttyw3
ptya9 ptypd ptyv1 ram13 tty6 ttyec ttyS34 ttyw4
dave@dave-ubuntu:/dev$

video doesn't seem to be there???

[arnieboy]

That means the spcs5xx driver and other webcam drivers which come standard with Dapper do not support your webcam. For a complete list of spca5xx supported webcams look here:
http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html
You should look around with your webcam model on google with "ubuntu or linux driver" in the end to see if there are other drivers out there which support your cam.

The fact that your webcam is being listed in the list of USB devices does not mean that its driver is installed.

[dave.goodfellow]

Thanks for trying
I'll give google a go and report back if I have any joy.
Otherwise it's off to the shops.
Can you recommend a good linux webcam?
Cheers
Dave

[arnieboy]

try to go for one which has 5 stars and has a "yes" on the link that I gave.

For example: labtec webcam pro.

[samotano]

I have a logitech quickcam fusion. Fairly new to ubuntu/linux. I can't get my webcam to work (the mic part works in gnomemeeting). I followed arnieboy instructions throughout this forum, but the camera does not show up as a device (gnomemeeting). I checked the website referred and my webcam is listed as supported by the drivers. HELP!!!!
thx.
S

[athan]

Hi,
I have the same camera working in dapper. Unfortunately the quickcam & spca5xx drivers won't work for the quickcam fusion. You'll have to use uvcvideo which can be downloaded here: http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/linux-uvc/linux-uvc/trunk/

If you have the installed the kernel-headers & build essential package a simple 'make' & 'make install' should do the work. You can load the module with 'modprobe uvcvideo' and check 'tail -f /var/log/messages'. The module should load with no errors.

For Ekiga: Press Settings -> Video Devices -> Search Devices. The cam should be found automatically.

Hope this helps!

[gymsmoke]

Arnie~
First, Thank you !!! I had almost everything figured out, except that part about the version of the compilation. Undoing all my mess and just following the commands you outlined were perfect!

Second, you must have the patience of a croc watching a titmouse waiting for his lunch... 25 pages of thread (and counting). I commend you for your tenacity in answering all of these.

Lastly, I installed a Logitech quickcam pro 3000 on my desktop. Video worked first time out. However, the audio borks. I've been trying this using gnomemeeting (since it's really the only app I know of that will test both audio and video). It recognizes the cam just fine, image sizing is no problem, all video functions work as expected. On the audio device panel ALSA/quicknet show as the plugin , output device shows as Intel 82801DB-ICH4 / default. Input device shows as USB Device 0x64d:0x8b0 (selected) / default / Intel 82801DB-ICH4

lsusb shows this:
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 006: ID 046d:08b0 Logitech, Inc. Quickcam 3000 Pro [pwc]
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 043d:0072 Lexmark International, Inc. X6170 Printer
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c404 Logitech, Inc. TrackMan Wheel
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

(In case anyone asks - NO the lexmark doesn't work. I've since disconnected it and quit trying to get anything lexmark to talk to Linux).

uname -r = 2.6.12.10-386
Ubuntu 5.10

Any thoughts on why the video, but no audio?

Thanks.

Jon

[JoeG]

I'm running Dapper (kubuntu) here and the cam (Ezonics EZ-305) worked out of the box. Just one problem: the image is inverted ... as in flipped upside-down. Is there a fix for this, or am I just gonna have to mount it upside-down to get the image right?

[gymsmoke]

Joe~
Depending on the app, there is a control that inverts the image. So far, I've only just got my webcam working (video only, no sound), so I haven't experimented too far with this. If I get the audio portion working, I have a few apps that I'm waiting to try out...

[JoeG]

Joe~
Depending on the app, there is a control that inverts the image. So far, I've only just got my webcam working (video only, no sound), so I haven't experimented too far with this. If I get the audio portion working, I have a few apps that I'm waiting to try out...
Hmm. I've tried gqcam and camstream to no avail. The cam works, I just can't find a control that fixes the inverted image. Any ideas, folks? ](*,)

[Sakhaara]

sakhaara@Nosferatu:~/spca5xx-20060501$ sudo make CC=gcc-3.4
Building SPCA5XX driver for 2.5/2.6 kernel.
Remember: you must have read/write access to your kernel source tree.
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/home/sakhaara/spca5xx-20060501 CC=gcc-3.4 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-23-386'
CC [M] /home/sakhaara/spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca5xx.o
CC [M] /home/sakhaara/spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spcadecoder.o
LD [M] /home/sakhaara/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
CC /home/sakhaara/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx.mod.o
LD [M] /home/sakhaara/spca5xx-20060501/spca5xx.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-23-386'
sakhaara@Nosferatu:~/spca5xx-20060501$ sudo modprobe -r spca5xx
sakhaara@Nosferatu:~/spca5xx-20060501$ sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx*
sakhaara@Nosferatu:~/spca5xx-20060501$ sudo make install
mkdir -p /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/
rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca50x.ko
rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/et61x.ko
install -c -m 0644 spca5xx.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/
/sbin/depmod -ae
sakhaara@Nosferatu:~/spca5xx-20060501$ sudo modprobe spca5xx
FATAL: Error inserting spca5xx (/lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx.ko): Invalid module format


I have an error..and i tryed the "make clean" command too..and it doesn't work

[Sakhaara]

i've fixed the problem. i just exchanged the gcc

sudo make CC=gcc-4.0

to this.