Webcam freezes screen

[Ian House <ian1959 (at) westnet.com.au>]

Hi Michel,
I tried spcaview and the same thing happened. The screen froze. I also 
downloaded the latest releases (rc6 - rc7) but keep getting errors when 
trying to compile. I would appreciate any help with this as I am fairly new 
to the command line.
 I followed the instructions in the readme. The errors follow.
 When untaring this is in the script. Don't know if it has anything to do with 
the error.
spca5xx-20060420rc6/CHANGELOG
tar: spca5xx-20060420rc6/drivers: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 
10:00:00
spca5xx-20060420rc6/README-SONIX
spca5xx-20060420rc6/README-TV8532
spca5xx-20060420rc6/INSTALL
spca5xx-20060420rc6/cutlog.py
linux:/home/ian.suse/downloads #                                          

This is the make install script.
linux:/usr/local/src/inst/spca5xx-20060420rc6 # make install
mkdir -p /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/
rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca50x.ko
rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/et61x.ko
install -c -m 0644 spca5xx.ko /lib/modules/`uname 
-r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/
install: cannot stat `spca5xx.ko': No such file or directory
make: *** [install] Error 1
linux:/usr/local/src/inst/spca5xx-20060420rc6 # make
   Building SPCA5XX driver for 2.5/2.6 kernel.
   Remember: you must have read/write access to your kernel source tree.
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build 
SUBDIRS=/usr/local/src/inst/spca5xx-20060420rc6 CC=cc modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.13-15.8-obj/i386/default'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `modules'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.13-15.8-obj/i386/default'
make: *** [default] Error 2
Cheers,
Ian...

On Monday 24 April 2006 01:44, michel Xhaard wrote:
> Le Dimanche 23 Avril 2006 15:58, Ian House a écrit :
> > I've recently installed a Vimicro webcam, configured with spca5xx, Motv
> > and gqcam. Problem is I can see everything is showing the way it should
> > but when I try to access it with either motv or gqcam the screen just
> > locks up and I have to reboot. I used the Linux howto for webcams for
> > config. dmesg | less , shows....
> > --Linux video capture interface: v1.00
> > spca5xx: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
> > usb 1-2.2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 5
> > /home/raoul/work/spca5xx-0.57.11/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: USB SPCA5XX c
> > amera found. Type Vimicro Zc305B 0x305b
> > /home/raoul/work/spca5xx-0.57.11/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: [spca5xx_prob
> > e:8301] Camera type JPEG
> > /home/raoul/work/spca5xx-0.57.11/drivers/usb/zc3xx.h: [zc3xx_config:4
> > 59] Find Sensor UNKNOW_0 force Tas5130
> > /home/raoul/work/spca5xx-0.57.11/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: [spca5xx_getc
> > apability:2198] maxw 640 maxh 480 minw 176 minh 144
> > usbcore: registered new driver spca5xx
> > /home/raoul/work/spca5xx-0.57.11/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: spca5xx drive
> > r 00.57.11 registered
> >
> > Can someone please help me to get this working.
> >  Running = SuSE 10.0, AMD2600xp , 1.5G DDR400 pc3200 ram ,
> >  Radeon9600 Pro 256mb ram , with ATI Graphics driver version 8.24.08
> > Cheers,
> > Ian...
> >
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> Ian,
> the canonical apps to test your webcam is spcaview available on the spca5xx
> website.
> You should used the following command:
> spcaview -d /dev/video0 -f jpg -s 320x240
> Can you test the next release candidate (rc7) available here :
> http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Doc/allinone/
> That should work with openSuse as i work with this distro :)
> you should post to:
> spca50x-devs (at) lists.sourceforge.net
> regards

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