WARNING! LONG POST! On Wednesday 30 October 2002 23.18, Joe Sullivan wrote:
On Wednesday 30 October 2002 22:03, jaakko tamminen wrote:
Any succestions of a camera, that is known to work under SuSE8.0 with pretty much standard PC ??
I have a Creative webcam but it uses the pwc/x combo as yours does.
The reason it doesn't come ready-to-work in SuSE is that pwcx contains proprietary code...
It's not really that hard to set up though. This is how I did it...
1. Download the latest pwcx.o from http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/
2. It's actually pwcx-i386.o ... Rename it to just pwcx.o
3. Copy it into /lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/kernel/drivers/usb/
(Instructions on the site say put it somewhere else, but I never got it to work that way. Doing it this way just means you'll need to re-add it if you change kernels.)
4. Type the command: depmod -a
5. Type the command: modprobe pwc
6. Type the command: insmod -f pwcx
Should be working at this point.
To get it working every time, open /etc/rc.d/boot.local . Add:
modprobe pwc insmod -f pwcx
lines in that file.
This is a bit off-way of doing things, but hey, there's more than one way to get things done in Linux. ;-) It worked, that's all that mattered to me.
Give that a try before giving up. Just keep a backup copy of pwcx.o and boot.local for when you upgrade...
Later, Joe
I have been trying to get my 3000 up for the longest time, but always failing. When pluging the cam into the USB i get (in /var/log/messages) Nov 2 14:49:38 smp kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 3 Nov 2 14:49:38 smp kernel: usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x46d/0x850) is not claimed by any active driver. Nov 2 14:49:38 smp kernel: usb.c: registered new driver audio Nov 2 14:49:38 smp kernel: usbaudio: device 3 audiocontrol interface 1 has 1 input and 0 output AudioStreaming interfaces Nov 2 14:49:38 smp kernel: usbaudio: device 3 interface 2 altsetting 0 FORMAT_TYPE descriptor not found Nov 2 14:49:38 smp kernel: usbaudio: valid input sample rate 8000 Nov 2 14:49:38 smp kernel: usbaudio: valid input sample rate 48000 Nov 2 14:49:38 smp kernel: usbaudio: valid input sample rate 44100 Nov 2 14:49:38 smp kernel: usbaudio: valid input sample rate 32000 Nov 2 14:49:38 smp kernel: usbaudio: valid input sample rate 22050 Nov 2 14:49:38 smp kernel: usbaudio: valid input sample rate 16000 Nov 2 14:49:38 smp kernel: usbaudio: valid input sample rate 10257 Nov 2 14:49:38 smp kernel: usbaudio: device 3 interface 2 altsetting 1: format 0x00000010 sratelo 8000 sratehi 48000 attributes 0x01 Nov 2 14:49:38 smp kernel: usbaudio: registered dsp 14,35 Nov 2 14:49:38 smp kernel: usbaudio: constructing mixer for Terminal 3 type 0x0101 Nov 2 14:49:38 smp kernel: usbaudio: warning: found 1 of 0 logical channels. Nov 2 14:49:38 smp kernel: usbaudio: assuming the channel found is the master channel (got a Philips camera?). Should be fine. Nov 2 14:49:38 smp kernel: usbaudio: registered mixer 14,16 Nov 2 14:49:38 smp kernel: usb_audio_parsecontrol: usb_audio_state at cbfa2a80 Nov 2 14:49:38 smp kernel: audio.c: v1.0.0:USB Audio Class driver Nov 2 14:49:38 smp insmod: Using /lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB-SMP/kernel/drivers/usb/audio.o Nov 2 14:49:38 smp insmod: Symbol version prefix 'smp_' Nov 2 14:49:39 smp kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0) Nov 2 14:49:39 smp kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0) Nov 2 14:49:39 smp kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,1) Nov 2 14:49:39 smp kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,1) And when i modprobe the pwc module: Nov 2 14:50:29 smp kernel: Linux video capture interface: v1.00 Nov 2 14:50:29 smp kernel: pwc Philips PCA645/646 + PCVC675/680/690 + PCVC730/740/750 webcam module version 8.6 loaded. Nov 2 14:50:29 smp kernel: pwc Also supports the Askey VC010, Logitech Quickcam 3000 Pro, Samsung MPC-C10 and MPC-C30, Nov 2 14:50:29 smp kernel: pwc the Creative WebCam 5, SOTEC Afina Eye and Visionite VCS-UC300 and VCS-UM100. Nov 2 14:50:29 smp kernel: usb.c: registered new driver Philips webcam Thats all she wrote. It newer registers a /dev/<whatever> So i cant access it at all.. What do i do? Also a strange thing.. I have a /var/log/firewall that almost mimics the /var/log/messages and as i have no clue on how to change logging levels or files... Ah well... -- /Rikard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rikard Johnels email : rjhn@linux.nu Web : http://www.rikjoh.com Mob : +46 70 464 99 39 ------------------------ Public PGP fingerprint ---------------------------- < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 >