[TriLUG] Logitech QuickCam - no video device found

[William Sutton]

responses interespersed below

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Timothy A. Chagnon wrote:

> I picked up this exact same camera (logitech quickcam chat) about a
> month ago.  I've got it running under Ubuntu 5.10, but had to manually
> compile and install the module.  The default one that comes with the
> Ubuntu kernel doesn't work.  Some v4l call gives me a kernel panic. 
> The spca5xx version I have working is 20051212.

no kernel panics; spca5xx version is 20060101

> 
> Although, I think even the old version still got a device at
> /dev/video0.  Silly question but when you plug in the camera, do you
> get syslog messages telling you it correctly identified the device and
> installed the spca5xx module?

from /var/log/messages:
Jan 17 15:59:09 kenobi kernel: Linux video capture interface: v1.00
Jan 17 15:59:09 kenobi kernel: Colour QuickCam for Video4Linux v0.05

no mention of spca5xx in /var/log/messages; no mention of it in 
/var/log/syslog, either.

> 
> If the version of spca5xx that gentoo has is not very new, the USB ID
> for these camera's might not be registered to the module maybe?  Also,
> IIRC mplayer has some issues with this v4l device.  I know xawtv and
> gnomemeeting work.

latest (not stable) version of spca5xx; I would guess if yours works, mine 
should work.  The problem seems to be a disconnect between the video 
device and the hardware!?  Is that the spca5xx layer, or (my guess) the 
videodev layer?

> 
> Tim
> 
> On 1/17/06, William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:
> > any other suggestions?
> >
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