Re: spca5xx freezes system

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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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