[Bug 38906] Driver non-functional in Dapper - AMD K8 kernel, Logitech Communicate STX webcam

[Rounan]

Public bug reported:

Affects: linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Major
       Priority: Medium
         Status: Confirmed


Description:
I upgraded to Dapper because I heard that the spca5xx driver was
actually functional. (it's broken in Breezy because the module was
compiled with gcc 4, while the kernel was in gcc 3.4)

I'm using a Logitech Quickcam Communicate STX on an AMD64 system, k8
kernel. It's detected fine - lsmod shows the spca5xx module loaded. It's
handled fine by udev - /dev/video and /dev/video0 both exist. But when I
try to use it, no dice.

Ekiga doesn't detect it.
Using camorama, it pops up an error saying "could not connect to video device (/dev/video0)", and using the debug (-D) option gives me this single tidbit:
Code:

VIDIOCGCAP -- could not get camera capabilities, exiting.....


even lowly cat is unable to use this device properly:
Code:

$ ls -l /dev/video* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2006-04-08 10:37 /dev/video
-> video0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 0 2006-04-08 10:37 /dev/video0 $
cat /dev/video0 cat: /dev/video0: No space left on device


Which is funny, because I didn't ask it to write anything to the device.

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Driver non-functional in Dapper - AMD K8 kernel, Logitech Communicate STX webcam
https://launchpad.net/bugs/38906