Problem installing Creative Webcam Live! Ultra

[John Schofield]

Thomas Kaiser and arnieboy pointed me to pretty much the same info:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=75284
http://www.kaiser-linux.li/index.php/Ububtu_Linux

(Thanks a bunch to both of you!)


I followed both, on fresh installs of Ubuntu 5.10.

Both compiled and installed without errors.

In reading the forum posting, it seemed to be about people who had  
problems with GnomeMeeting (or other webcam apps) crashing.

My problem (which I should have been more explicit about earlier) is  
that the camera is not recognized. GnomeMeeting reports "No device  
found." It never gets to the point where it would crash.

I installed gqcam and it reports /dev/video does not exist.

So I'm thinking that my Creative Webcam Live! Ultra is not actually  
running a ICM532 chipset. Anyone know if this camera is SUPPOSED to  
work with spca5xx? It's not listed on their website as compatible,  
and so far my Google-fu has been weak.


John

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On Mar 28, 2006, at 3:07 PM, 'Forum Post , '@ohiggins.ubuntu.com wrote:

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> John Schofield Wrote:
>> I'm testing several webcams for my company. I'm running Ubuntu 5.10
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>> with all updates.
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>> A Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 showed up in GnomeMeeting with no
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>> problems -- worked flawlessly.
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>> However, I'm having a little more trouble with Creative Webcam Live!
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>> Ultra. Which stinks, because its lens characteristics are better for
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>> our purposes.
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>> Creative does not support Linux directly, but do point to a web page
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>> with pointers to open-source, non-Creative drivers:
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>> http://opensource.creative.com/webcam.html
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>> Although my camera is not listed, the closest match seemed to be the
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>> Spca5xx project at:
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>> http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html
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>> They list several Creative cameras, including one "Live!" one, but
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>> not the Ultra.
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>> Because it seemed like a close match and *might* work, I downloaded
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>> their package and attempted to install it.
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>> Their instructions say you need to have a kernel source tree:
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>> "Module compile outside the kernel tree but need the source of your
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>> running
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>> kernel installed and configured.
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>> be sure your kernel include usb and v4l stuff"
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>> So I ran "apt-get install kernel-package-2.6.12-10" and then
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>> "fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=bogus.0 kernel_image"
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>> When I run "make" from inside the "spca5xx-20060301" folder, I get
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>> the following output:
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>> "Building SPCA5XX driver for 2.5/2.6 kernel.
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>> Remember: you must have read/write access to your kernel source
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>> tree.
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>> make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/home/dakim/
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>> spca5xx-20060301 CC=cc modules
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>> make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/build: No such file or
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>> directory.  Stop.
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>> make: *** [default] Error 2"
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>> My questions:
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>> 1) Am I doing this the right way? Is there a better way of getting
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>> this camera working with Ubuntu?
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>> 2) Would Dapper have better support for my camera?
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>> 3) If I'm going about this the right way in general, what am I
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>> missing when I attempt to compile the spca5xx driver?
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>> Thanks very much!
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>> -- 
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> The correct way to do it is here:
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> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=75284
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>
> -- 
> arnieboy
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