[PD] logitech webcam and GEM

[Roman Haefeli]

hi altern

according to this:

http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=3503

you need a driver called 'dkms-gspca'. 

roman


On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 16:40 +0200, altern wrote:
> hi
> 
> i am trying to use a USB webcam with GEM on my IBM laptop with Ubuntu 
> Studio but pd gives me an error
> 
> error: failed opening device '/dev/video0'
> 
> the same camera runs perfectly on the same laptop under XP and also on 
> my desktop machine with Ubuntu Studio. All using the same patch and same 
> versions of PD and GEM.
> 
> The camera is a logitech quickcam communicate STX
> PD 0.39.3 extended-rc5
> Linux r2d2-desktop 2.6.20-16-lowlatency #2 SMP PREEMPT Fri Aug 31 
> 00:58:46 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
> 
> The camera seems to be recognised, if i plug it on i can see the 
> camera's blue light flashing and dmesg gives this :
> 
> [27776.980572] ubuntu/media/gspcav1/gspca_core.c: USB SPCA5XX camera 
> found.(ZC3XX)
> 
> same message as in the desktop machine.
> 
> Comparing the PD output from both machines i can see that after saying
> 
> - GEM start rendering
> my desktop says :
> - v4l::thread starting
> but the laptop says:
> - error: failed opening device '/dev/video0'
> 
> i searched with synaptic for v4l and compared all stuff installed in 
> both machines just in case i was missing some library in the laptop, but 
> it is exactly the same in both...
> 
> my bet is that some module is missing, but i dont know which ones might 
> be as i havent mess around with modules very much so far, i am comparing 
> the lsmod from the desktop and laptop at the moment, there are few 
> differences but i dont really know where to start from, any one has any 
> idea?
> 
> thanks!
> 
> enrike
> 
> 
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