HOWTO: Logitech quickcam messenger

[thommy]

Hi TheDebugger, the installation ran without any error messages. But if I use camorama, there is an error message: Could not capture image. In the image window are only some stripes with pixels. Similar happens using skype, if I want to use video transmission. Using cheese, I get a perfect image. Do you have an idea, what is going wrong? Some days before I installed the driver for a dvb-t stick, as described here: http://www.imhorst.net/digittrade-dv...-linux-nutzen/ I used the ubuntu script. May this be the reason, why camorama and skype-video don't work?
Thommy
Starting camorama in a terminal this message appears: (camorama:19003): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated

[Johnny Golden]

Thanks TheDebugger, made some real progress, although like SpEcIeS I had to run the script as root for it to complete. Can now get an image in xawtv and camorama (although not cheese - haven't tested anything else) but only after running modprobe qcmessenger as root (sudo -s).

So my questions are:
- How do I get the webcam working as a non-root user (e.g. using sudo)?
- More importantly, how do I get it to load at startup (adding qcmessenger to /etc/modules doesn't seem to do the trick)?

Any help would be much appreciated...

[el_chupacabra]

Originally Posted by TheDebugger I made a patch available here http://www.geocities.com/hvansteenhuyse/index.html. So there are 2 patches to install: - The first one is mentioned above cfr. #105 - The second one is this one After installing both the patches I compiled the driver and my cam was working. HowTo apply the patches: wget http://home.mag.cx/messenger/source/...ger-1.8.tar.gz wget http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=167504 -O patch.txt Download the second patch here and put it in the same directory as the other downloads tar xzvf qc-usb-messenger-1.8.tar.gz patch -p0 < patch.txt patch -p0 < qc.patch.2.txt cd qc-usb-messenger-1.8 ./quickcam.sh The script quickcam.sh does literally everything (software dependency checks, compilation and installation of the driver), all you have to do is press ENTER several times until the scripts ends. Or you could just execute the steps explained in # 105 (item above) supra adding my patch of course. After installing both the patches I compiled the driver and my cam was working. Have fun!

This worked for my "Logitech QuickCam Messenger Communicate" webcam.

Bus 005 Device 003: ID 046d:08f5 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Messenger Communicate

Thanks a lot.

[el_chupacabra]

If anybody is interested, I created a short guide on what I did here: http://balla.knows.it

[venky80]

Originally Posted by el_chupacabra If anybody is interested, I created a short guide on what I did here: http://balla.knows.it

Is there a deb file for this I am using jaunty and have a quickcam messenger 08F0 which does not work with skype or cheese

[adambh]

Originally Posted by desperado666 No. It does go black while "compiling" Step 6.(Something i could see was patching kernel) If i press CTRL ALT Backspace and do my login i can work again.

I have exactly the same problem, (kernel 2.6.27-11-generic).
Also running a laptop, though I don´t see how that would affect anything.

[pgg1959]

Originally Posted by TheDebugger I made a patch available here http://www.geocities.com/hvansteenhuyse/index.html. So there are 2 patches to install: - The first one is mentioned above cfr. #105 - The second one is this one After installing both the patches I compiled the driver and my cam was working. HowTo apply the patches: wget http://home.mag.cx/messenger/source/...ger-1.8.tar.gz wget http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=167504 -O patch.txt Download the second patch here and put it in the same directory as the other downloads tar xzvf qc-usb-messenger-1.8.tar.gz patch -p0 < patch.txt patch -p0 < qc.patch.2.txt cd qc-usb-messenger-1.8 ./quickcam.sh The script quickcam.sh does literally everything (software dependency checks, compilation and installation of the driver), all you have to do is press ENTER several times until the scripts ends. Or you could just execute the steps explained in # 105 (item above) supra adding my patch of course. After installing both the patches I compiled the driver and my cam was working. Have fun!

Thanks TheDebugger. Following your recipe helped this complete newbie to get the Logitech quickcam messenger working in xawtv. I just set the system up about 3 days ago and had no clue about Ubuntu before. Dabbled a bit with linux in 1995 (when it came on floppies!!) but have not really kept any contact with it since. I have to say I am impressed.

Looking forward to playing some more and then eventually I will be able to get rid of the Windows box. Next project is loading Windows in a Virtual Machine.

Talk to you all soon.

[cisneros]

I am having the same problem, have tried running the quickcam.sh script with the patches but to no avail.

I would like to work out where actually the problem is: I tried compiling the gspca module (which claims to support the camera i have (046d:08da)), but it came up with, at the end,

/usr/src/modules/gspca/gspca_core.c: In function ‘spca5xx_probe’: ▒
/usr/src/modules/gspca/gspca_core.c:4301: error: incompatible types in ▒
assignment ▒
make[4]: *** [/usr/src/modules/gspca/gspca_core.o] Error 1 ▒
make[3]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/gspca] Error 2 ▒
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-11-generic' ▒
make[2]: *** [default] Error 2 ▒
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/gspca' ▒
make[1]: *** [binary-modules] Error 2 ▒
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/gspca' ▮
make: *** [kdist_build] Error 2

Does anyone knows what is causing the incompatible types in the script, and how I can solve it?

thanks

[el_chupacabra]

Originally Posted by venky80 Is there a deb file for this I am using jaunty and have a quickcam messenger 08F0 which does not work with skype or cheese

Did you try the guide? 08F0 needs the same driver as my 08F5 version.

[PRDR]

Hi,

I had the 08F6 QC camera working just fine with intrepid's kernels using the excellent directions and patches found in this thread. But now, with jaunty, the driver fails to compile again .

Anybody knows of a patch working with jaunty's kernel?

Thanks in advance!