[PD] PDP Webcam problem

[Andrew Cavers]

Ok, I looked at installing the old PWC/PWCX driver last night. Only
problem is that as the PWCX driver is closed-source, there are only
versions for a couple of specific kernels. Unsurprisingly, 2.6.12 is
not one of them. I can force the module to load even on this kenel
(can't I?), but will it still work? I can try that.

But ideally, i'd like to get the camera working with the latest
reverse-engineered drivers. I know very little about these things, but
it makes sense to me that the problem lies in the fact that PDP forces
the camera to run at 320x240 @27fps. I only want 160x120 @ 10/15 fps
(I have a slow CPU and I want it to be doing lots of other things at
the same time). Apparently, PDP has some "extra features" for webcams
using PWC but as far as I can tell all it does is lock the camera to
this resolution and frame rate...

I know nothing about c programming at all, but I'm considering poking
around in the PDP source code and trying to disable all the PWC
specfic stuff (by commenting it out?) and then recompiling. Is this a
really stupid idea?! Probably.

Opinions on this approach would be appreciated before I try it!

Andrew.

On 7/5/05, Andrew Cavers <andrew.cavers at gmail.com> wrote:
> Derek,
> 
> Thanks for the tip - that makes sense actually as I previously had the
> webcam working with PD when I was using a 2.4 kernel. I can't
> remember, but I suspect this was with the old PWC driver.
> 
> I'll try that this evening and report back!
> 
> Andrew.
> 
> On 7/5/05, derek holzer <derek at x-i.net> wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > I've always had bad luck with the reverse-engineered PWC drivers + PDP.
> > Perhaps you could try the USB-PWCX binary drivers from Phillips and see
> > if they work better?
> >
> > http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/
> >
> > good luck,
> > d.
> >
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