Camorama

[Phil Pinkerton]

Come to think of it I went through a lot of pain to get my Web Cam
working on Feisty 7.04 but It never worked on 6.10

I had to in stall the new driver.

*First *I re-installed the driver to see if would help ( read through to
the Second attempt )
 
/> I searched for your webcam in the internet, and it is supported, but
> not compiled in the default Ubuntu kernel. See:
> http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=3092
>
> You need to install spca5xx-source and run module-assistant (that will
> do the work for you).
> In module-assistant, you can update and prepare ubuntu to compile and
> install the module.
>
> sudo apt-get install spca5xx-source.
> sudo module-assistant
>
> #On module-assistant, this might be the correct way to do it.
> #i.e. Update, Prepare, Select (spca5xx), Get, Build, Install.
>
> or you can always manually install the driver by:
>
> cd /usr/src/
> sudo tar xvf spca5xx-source.tar.bz2
> cd modules/spca5xx
> sudo make && sudo make install
>
> To test your webcam, you can use Ekiga, or you can record videos
> through Youtube and Flash, (probably private) it requires Flash so,
> you need to
> sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree if it haven't been installed.
/
*Second *I re-installed the *NEW *driver

GO here and repeat the install ( I did it manually )
http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html

After that I ran Xawtv and Camorama ran great ( I have a built-in mic
that still does not work )

just for reference my lsusb shows:
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0ac8:0302 Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. ZC0302 WebCam

If I confused you sorry. I wen t through may steps it seems but it is
working ( execpt for the mic )

I hope it helps you a little

Phil


Jim Smith wrote:
> Phil Pinkerton wrote:
>   
>> Try EasyCam ( apt-get install easycam )
>>
>> It help me
>>
>>
>>
>> Jim Smith wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> I have not been able to make the webcam built into this laptop work
>>> yet.Camorama looks for a webcam on /dev/video0 but this seems to be a
>>> USB built-in.
>>>
>>> lsusb gives the following:
>>>   
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0ac8:c002 Z-Star Microelectronics Corp.
>>>> Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
>>>> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
>>>> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
>>>> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
>>>> Bus 002 Device 002: ID 045e:00e1 Microsoft Corp.
>>>> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
>>>>     
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> The first item is the webcam. Anyone deal with this problem?
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>>   
>>>     
>>>       
>>   
>>     
> I did install easycam2 as well as xawtv.  Neither one can see a webcam.
> Is /dev/video0 a symlink and if so to what?
>
> Thank you
>
> Jim
>
>
>
>