Philips webcam

[Dotan Cohen]

On 04/01/2008, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
> > On 04/01/2008, anthony baldwin <anthony.baldwin01 at comcast.net> wrote:
> >> Well, looks like you found the module.
> >> Did you go to "settings>configure>devices" in Kopete to
> >> set up the device?
> >
> > Yes, I did take that obvious step before crying on the list.
> >
> Gerald's point was that (a) you can't benefit from compiling pwc from some
> source on the web, because you already have pwc.ko, and (b) it doesn't seem
> likely that _this_ Phillips webcam uses pwc.

Well, according to this page:
http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html

The camera is supported by the gspcav1 driver available from the same
site. However, it does not work with that driver. Now that I have that
driver installed, and not working, what step can I take to try
something else?

> So I'm guessing that if they
> _had_ a driver for their own cam and don't _now_, that it's probably using
> uvc.  So you probably want the uvc driver (uvcvideo) and possibly the
> VideoForLinux2 libraries (libpt-plugins-v4l2 - though I needed that for
> Ekiga, not for Kopete).

feisty at feisty-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install uvcvideo
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package uvcvideo
feisty at feisty-laptop:~$

So where can I get it?

Dotan Cohen

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