manoriax
January 21st, 2010, 09:33 PM
Hey,
I've just bought a new, cheap webcam. The manufacturer is "Trust", who builds chips of Microdia in their products. So, I plugged my new webcam, noticed that the driver obviously is missing and I finally decided to use Google.
Well, there were some tutorials which include manual installation of gspca (which should be included in the recent kernel files, but somehow isn't). So..I tried the manual installation and it aborts with the message, that there was some error in one of the code files..however.
I continued searching for a solution and found it on the German Ubuntu community page, ubuntuusers.de. Their wiki says that I have to run the following commands that download and compile the right drivers for my webcam. Or at least they should do so.
sudo apt-get install git-core gitk git-gui git-doc curl
git clone http://repo.or.cz/r/microdia.git
cd microdia
make
sudo modprobe videodev
sudo modprobe compat-ioctl32
sudo insmod sn9c20x.ko ...and eventually it should work properly. So far the theory. In fact it aborts at exactly this point:
sudo modprobe compat-ioctl32and gives the following error message:
phil@phil-desktop:~/microdia$ sudo modprobe compat-ioctl32
FATAL: Module compat_ioctl32 not found.
Well, urm. I guess I'll have to install that missing module..somehow, but I do not really have hunch.
Thanks for reading, I'm looking foward to reading a solution. :)
Regards
I've just bought a new, cheap webcam. The manufacturer is "Trust", who builds chips of Microdia in their products. So, I plugged my new webcam, noticed that the driver obviously is missing and I finally decided to use Google.
Well, there were some tutorials which include manual installation of gspca (which should be included in the recent kernel files, but somehow isn't). So..I tried the manual installation and it aborts with the message, that there was some error in one of the code files..however.
I continued searching for a solution and found it on the German Ubuntu community page, ubuntuusers.de. Their wiki says that I have to run the following commands that download and compile the right drivers for my webcam. Or at least they should do so.
sudo apt-get install git-core gitk git-gui git-doc curl
git clone http://repo.or.cz/r/microdia.git
cd microdia
make
sudo modprobe videodev
sudo modprobe compat-ioctl32
sudo insmod sn9c20x.ko ...and eventually it should work properly. So far the theory. In fact it aborts at exactly this point:
sudo modprobe compat-ioctl32and gives the following error message:
phil@phil-desktop:~/microdia$ sudo modprobe compat-ioctl32
FATAL: Module compat_ioctl32 not found.
Well, urm. I guess I'll have to install that missing module..somehow, but I do not really have hunch.
Thanks for reading, I'm looking foward to reading a solution. :)
Regards