MSI StarCam 370i Webcam on Jaunty

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Mon Aug 31 19:30:51 UTC 2009


On 08/20/2009 01:12 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I have the MSI StarCam 370i Webcam and I need to get it working with
> Jaunty. According to this page, "The StarCam 370i
> is compliant with UVC, USB video class":
> http://gadgets.softpedia.com/gadgets/Computer-Peripherals/The-MSI-StarCam-370i-3105.html
> 
> According to the Linux UVC driver and tools download page, "Linux
> 2.6.26 and newer includes the Linux UVC driver natively" which is nice
> as I am on a higher version:
> $ uname -r
> 2.6.28-15-generic
> 
> However, plugging in the webcam and testing with camorama, cheese, and
> luvcview led me to no results:
...
> 
> Some more details:
> 
> jaunty2 at laptop:~$ ls /dev/vi*
> /dev/video0
> jaunty2 at laptop:~$ dmesg | tail
> [ 2777.811972] sn9c102: V4L2 driver for SN9C1xx PC Camera Controllers
> v1:1.47pre49
> [ 2777.814989] usb 2-1: SN9C105 PC Camera Controller detected (vid:pid
> 0x0C45:0x60FC)
...
> Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0c45:60fc Microdia PC Camera with Mic (SN9C105)
...

Maybe?

<http://www.google.com/search?complete=0&hl=en&q=linux+%2B"MSI+StarCam+370i">

then

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=113047

then

http://www.pamplast.com/gspca/
Says that 60fc should work with original gspca.
http://www.pamplast.com/gspca/ubuntuguide.html
http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/jaunty/graphics/gspca
 from that page:
http://mxhaard.free.fr/index.html
http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html
LG 	158 	0x0c45 	0x60fc
So it's an LG (Lucky Goldstar) chipset.

Also check:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gspca/+bugs
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Spca5xx





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