webcams, again

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 23 May 2007, Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 23 May 2007, Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote:
> >> and then I see the following in lsmod:
> >>
> >> lsmod
> >>
> >> Module                  Size  Used by
> >> gspca                 643792  0
> >> videodev               29633  1 gspca
> >> v4l2_common            26945  1 videodev
> >> v4l1_compat            16581  1 videodev
> >> radeon                116065  2
> >> drm                    78421  3 radeon
> >> -----------   snip   -------------------
> >>
> >> I still don't see a /dev/video   but this appears to be a step forward
> >> anyway.
> >
> > It is.  Once your webcam is recognised the v4l packages will create
> > video0.  I do wonder, though, whether you are trying to load the correct
> > driver.  I say this because it's far from unknown for a model to change
> > chipset part way through its life.  Have you tried a fair bit of
> > googling, to see if others are using the gspcav driver and/or another
> > one?
> >
> > Anne
>
> Sane finds it:
>
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x046d, product=0x0870 [Camera]) at
> libusb:002:004
>
> as does lsusb:
>
> Bus 002 Device 003: ID 046d:c408 Logitech, Inc. Marble Mouse (4-button)
> Bus 002 Device 004: ID 046d:0870 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Express
>
> It appears to be the most common Logitech camera available in Walmart, etc.
>
> When I've investigated in the past it always seems to come back to the
> gspcav driver?
>
> It will work on this computer if I boot XP, something that never happens
> but I know the hardware works.  It's mostly an annoyance, I have it and it
> should work.  I keep thinking well maybe with the next version of Fedora
> but it hasn't happened.
>
> I believe this is the camera and if I understand this list he says this is
> the driver? Do I have to also install spca561a?  This stuff is not very
> clear.
>
> http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html
>
> Logitech
> 54
> 0x046d
> 0x0928
> QC Express Elch2
> ?
> spca561a
> embedded PB100
>
I did a bit of googling, and came up with no alternative drivers, so it 
probably is right.  Browse around the mxhaard site - there's a lot of info 
there.  If you can't solve it, I believe there is a contact email address on 
the site.

Anne
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