[opensuse] USB PC Camera install
Got a USB PC camera which I would like to use with Skype. It was a cheapy and I found not very much on google about drivers to be used. The camera, 0c45:613e microdia cam, should work with the sn9c102 driver, at least that is what the table of "USB device supported by debian Kernel Modules" tells me. In this list I also find under the USB id following lettersoup: dz*dc*dsc*dp*icFFisc*ip* There is no explanation towards this row of letters. I assume that if Debian supports it in its kernel, Suse will have it too but found no info on Google. Attached the webcam to my Laptop, Pentium IIi with Suse 10.3 and KDE and ran modprobe sn9c102. No protest from the system. Lsusb -v gives no address or any info if the webcam is running. What is the next step in order to see with the webcam. Seems that no /dev/video is made. Something like QuickCam Messenger? or any other program to have some camera exercise? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 22:57 +0700, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Got a USB PC camera which I would like to use with Skype. It was a cheapy and I found not very much on google about drivers to be used. The camera, 0c45:613e microdia cam, should work with the sn9c102 driver, at least that is what the table of "USB device supported by debian Kernel Modules" tells me. In this list I also find under the USB id following lettersoup: dz*dc*dsc*dp*icFFisc*ip*
There is no explanation towards this row of letters. I assume that if Debian supports it in its kernel, Suse will have it too but found no info on Google. Attached the webcam to my Laptop, Pentium IIi with Suse 10.3 and KDE and ran modprobe sn9c102. No protest from the system. Lsusb -v gives no address or any info if the webcam is running. What is the next step in order to see with the webcam. Seems that no /dev/video is made. Something like QuickCam Messenger? or any other program to have some camera exercise?
Try lsmod and look for sn9c102, I suspect that it is not loaded properly. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 22:57 +0700, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Got a USB PC camera which I would like to use with Skype. It was a cheapy and I found not very much on google about drivers to be used. The camera, 0c45:613e microdia cam, should work with the sn9c102 driver, at least that is what the table of "USB device supported by debian Kernel Modules" tells me. In this list I also find under the USB id following lettersoup: dz*dc*dsc*dp*icFFisc*ip*
There is no explanation towards this row of letters. I assume that if Debian supports it in its kernel, Suse will have it too but found no info on Google. Attached the webcam to my Laptop, Pentium IIi with Suse 10.3 and KDE and ran modprobe sn9c102. No protest from the system. Lsusb -v gives no address or any info if the webcam is running. What is the next step in order to see with the webcam. Seems that no /dev/video is made. Something like QuickCam Messenger? or any other program to have some camera exercise?
Try lsmod and look for sn9c102, I suspect that it is not loaded properly.
Its there ;) v412_common 20608 2 sn9c102, videodev -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 23:22 +0700, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 22:57 +0700, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Got a USB PC camera which I would like to use with Skype. It was a cheapy and I found not very much on google about drivers to be used. The camera, 0c45:613e microdia cam, should work with the sn9c102 driver, at least that is what the table of "USB device supported by debian Kernel Modules" tells me. In this list I also find under the USB id following lettersoup: dz*dc*dsc*dp*icFFisc*ip*
There is no explanation towards this row of letters. I assume that if Debian supports it in its kernel, Suse will have it too but found no info on Google. Attached the webcam to my Laptop, Pentium IIi with Suse 10.3 and KDE and ran modprobe sn9c102. No protest from the system. Lsusb -v gives no address or any info if the webcam is running. What is the next step in order to see with the webcam. Seems that no /dev/video is made. Something like QuickCam Messenger? or any other program to have some camera exercise?
Try lsmod and look for sn9c102, I suspect that it is not loaded properly.
Its there ;)
v412_common 20608 2 sn9c102, videodev
Here is my section from lsmod: ...... gspca 656720 0 ...... videodev 26880 1 gspca v4l1_compat 16388 1 videodev v4l2_common 26240 1 videodev ...... How does that look on yours? I have to manually compile and install the gspca driver on this system every kernel update. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 02 May 2008, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 23:22 +0700, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 22:57 +0700, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Got a USB PC camera which I would like to use with Skype. It was a cheapy and I found not very much on google about drivers to be used. The camera, 0c45:613e microdia cam, should work with the sn9c102 driver, at least that is what the table of "USB device supported by debian Kernel Modules" tells me. In this list I also find under the USB id following lettersoup: dz*dc*dsc*dp*icFFisc*ip*
There is no explanation towards this row of letters. I assume that if Debian supports it in its kernel, Suse will have it too but found no info on Google. Attached the webcam to my Laptop, Pentium IIi with Suse 10.3 and KDE and ran modprobe sn9c102. No protest from the system. Lsusb -v gives no address or any info if the webcam is running. What is the next step in order to see with the webcam. Seems that no /dev/video is made. Something like QuickCam Messenger? or any other program to have some camera exercise?
Try lsmod and look for sn9c102, I suspect that it is not loaded properly.
Its there ;)
v412_common 20608 2 sn9c102, videodev
Here is my section from lsmod: ...... gspca 656720 0 ...... videodev 26880 1 gspca v4l1_compat 16388 1 videodev v4l2_common 26240 1 videodev ......
How does that look on yours? I have to manually compile and install the gspca driver on this system every kernel update.
Sorry, it took me a while to answer. No webcam up to now but the sn9102 is present in the kernel. This i my output from lsmod: sn9c102 120452 0 videodev 30464 1 sn9102 v4l1_compat 16388 1 videodev v42l2_common 20608 2 sn9102, videodev Ran gqcam because I found it installed but the result is: /dev/video: no such file or directory So how do I produce a /dev/video? Yast does not seem to have an installer for webcams. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 01 May 08, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Something like QuickCam Messenger? or any other program to have some camera exercise?
wxcam or camstream work well, and kopete does the Yahoo cam thing (it will tell you what you need to install for that part to work...Jasper, IIRR). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On -28158-12-23 20:59, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Got a USB PC camera which I would like to use with Skype. It was a cheapy and I found not very much on google about drivers to be used. The camera, 0c45:613e microdia cam, should work with the sn9c102 driver, at least that is what the table of "USB device supported by debian Kernel Modules" tells me. In this list I also find under the USB id following lettersoup: dz*dc*dsc*dp*icFFisc*ip*
There is no explanation towards this row of letters. I assume that if Debian supports it in its kernel, Suse will have it too but found no info on Google. Attached the webcam to my Laptop, Pentium IIi with Suse 10.3 and KDE and ran modprobe sn9c102. No protest from the system. Lsusb -v gives no address or any info if the webcam is running. What is the next step in order to see with the webcam. Seems that no /dev/video is made. Something like QuickCam Messenger? or any other program to have some camera exercise?
Just some info which might be of interest; The SN9C1xx driver in the kernel comes from http://www.linux-projects.org/modules/news/ The SN9Cxxx driver from the same place is proprietary and released only as binary-only time-limited trial version for Ubuntu. There is a new open-source driver in the works, which aims to support all SN9Cxxx webcams. It already works very well for my SN9C201 microdia cam, and the project is very active. If you would like to help out by providing information or developing, or just want to take a look, visit http://groups.google.com/group/microdia/ Best regards Sylvester Lykkehus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 03 May 2008, Sylvester Lykkehus wrote:
On -28158-12-23 20:59, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Got a USB PC camera which I would like to use with Skype. It was a cheapy and I found not very much on google about drivers to be used. The camera, 0c45:613e microdia cam, should work with the sn9c102
Just some info which might be of interest; The SN9C1xx driver in the kernel comes from http://www.linux-projects.org/modules/news/ The SN9Cxxx driver from the same place is proprietary and released only as binary-only time-limited trial version for Ubuntu.
There is a new open-source driver in the works, which aims to support all SN9Cxxx webcams. It already works very well for my SN9C201 microdia cam, and the project is very active.
If you would like to help out by providing information or developing, or just want to take a look, visit http://groups.google.com/group/microdia/
Dear Sylvester, That was indeed very helpful. As a matter of fact I am already since months looking for the camera software and this list gave me some more useful information. What I need is the sn9c120 which I found out is found in the new sn9c1xx-1.48. Downloaded the tar.gz and will have look how to get it into the kernel. How could I find out which version is included in the kernel version I am using? 2.6.22.17.01-default. Is there a kernel in the suse community with the updated sn9c1xx part included? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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