spca5xx freezes system
Eric Tanguy
eric.tanguy at univ-nantes.fr
Sun Jul 16 18:44:21 UTC 2006
Le dimanche 16 juillet 2006 à 01:46 -0400, Ric Moore a écrit :
> 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
>
> No luck so far, I just got the tarball and did as you did, I even have
> both of the webcams installed and it doesn't detect either of them. It
> is maddening. There is supposed to be some sort of program for linux
> that lets you use windows drivers. I believe it costs, but about now I
> use the sucker if it worked! Anyone know what that program suite is
> named? Ric
>
>
Just use the kernel module available in atrpms-testing, it will work
fine!!
Eric
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