Webcam & xsane in 8.10RC

[Jeff]

Thanks for the reply. dmesg told me nothing. Thought things would be
better supported than worse? Ive got another couple of years support on
Hardy so i will go back to that thanks.
Jeff


On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 10:16 +0200, Thomas Kaiser wrote:

> Jeff wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 17:09 -0400, Abhinav Gupta wrote:
> >> Perhaps this will help.
> >> http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/
> >> Get the latest snapshot. Seems to have support for your webcam.
> >>
> >> Abhinav Gupta
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Jeff
> >> <captain.jeffrey.t.spaulding at gmail.com <mailto:captain.jeffrey.t.spaulding at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >> > Yes i have tried cheese and Camorama but no go. Thanks for the reply.
> >> > Jeff
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 16:33 -0400, Abhinav Gupta wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Have you tried the webcam in Cheese ?
> >> > If you don't have it - sudo apt-get install cheese
> >> > Try it in cheese first.
> >> >
> >> > Abhinav Gupta
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Jeff
> >> > <captain.jeffrey.t.spaulding at gmail.com <mailto:captain.jeffrey.t.spaulding at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hi , have just installed 64bit 8.10RC and having problem with Philips SPC
> >> > 900NC webcam not working and Scanner not working. When i start xsane the
> >> > webcam light comes on, and the xsane window says "Philips SPC900NC" instead
> >> > of "Lide 20" for my scanner. It seems like the webcam and scanner programs
> >> > have got mixed somehow?  The webcam and Scanner both work perfectly in
> >> > Hardy.  Wonder if anyone can enlighten me please?
> >> > Thanks Jeff
> >> >
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> > Thanks for that but i prefer to use the standard driver that worked fine 
> > in 8.04
> > Jeff
> > 
> 
> Hey Jeff
> 
> In 8.04 Ubuntu uses gspca V1 for a lot of cams. gspca V1 is no longer 
> maintained. So, I think Ubuntu uses gspca V2 in the 8.10 release. gspca 
> V2 is a rewrite of the gspca V1 module to fit to the v4l2 interface. 
> Therefor not all cams which were working in gspca V1 do work in gspca V2 :-(
> 
> What shows the kernel log (dmesg) when you plug the cam and use a viewer 
> app.
> 
> Thomas
> 
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