Philips webcam

[Derek Broughton]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> 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

Once again, Dotan, uvcvideo is _just_ a module.  modprobe it.

Generally speaking: driver = module (not 100% guaranteed, but every driver
will _have_ a kernel module).
-- 
derek