Camorama

[Jim Smith]

Phil Pinkerton wrote:
> 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
>>>>
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>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>   
>>     
>
>   
I did it all as you instructed and still no joy.  This is the output
from running xawtv from the command line:
> This is xawtv-3.94, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.15-28-386)
> can't open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
> v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
> v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
> v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
> v4l: open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
> no video grabber device available
> jim at JimsBook:~$
Not sure what to do next.

Jim