spca5xx freezes system

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 01:22 +0200, Marco777 wrote:
> Hello all.  I'm fairly new at the driver thing, but I have a sloppy workaround that makes the driver work for the latest kernel (2.6.17-1.2157_FC5smp in my case) with a QuickCam Communicate STX.  I don't know why it works, I only know that is works.  Any input would be appreciated.
> 
> 1.  Get the driver sources from
> 
> http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html
> 
> Unzip and navigate to the directory
> 
> 2.  Add the line "DEFINES += -fno-unit-at-a-time" around line 29 in the Makefile
> 
> 3.  As root, execute
> 
>     make clean
>     make
>     make install
> 
> 4.  To load the module, execute
> 
>     insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx.ko
> 
> I tried it before with just modprobe, and I kept getting an error that there was an unknown parameter in the kernel module.  I found this while reverting to my old webcam (a regular QuickCam Communicate) and using the qc-usb-messenger driver.  It would work fine when I first compiled and loaded it, but after a reboot I also got the unknown parameter error.  I just added the insmod line /etc/rc.d/rc.local to have it execute at startup.
> 
> This makes the camera work with camstream and ekiga.  Vanity still won't detect it.  If this is a totally wrong solution that is messing/will mess up my system, please let me know.
> 
> Thanks,
> Marco Turcios

I've been to that site many times! I cannot for the life of me figure
out just which rpm to use. It's not intuitive to me. Just how did you
figure out which to use? You must be using a src file to be able to
compile it? Please eduacte me, as I have two webcams sitting here
mocking me. One actually lites up, The other one just looks stupid and
of no use. Otherwise Polite Society is being denied looking at my
smiling countenance on the web. That is a crime. <g> Ric