HOWTO: Logitech quickcam messenger

[Csomby]

Yesterday a new driver came out( qc-usb-messenger-1.8.tar.gz). The problem that everyone told (quickcam.ko) is repaired, but now the qcset has problems. i have a 64bit system, so i can use the .deb that someone sent. If somebody can solve the problem, please share with us,thanks

[Muchacho_Gasolino]

Yo Csomby,

Where can I get me one of those 1.8s? I think I'm looking on the maintainer's page (http://home.mag.cx/messenger/) and there is no mention of it. Also, a google search for "qc-usb-messenger-1.8.tar.gz" turns up absolutely nothing...


@SATA:

Where is that "hardware: ..." line that you changed? I can't find it in either the patch or quickcam.h.

Thanks a lot for that! I've got it working in the 2.6.24-16 kernel now. However, if I try to get do the same thing for the 2.6.24-17 kernel with "..." it doesn't work. Why might that be?

Same thing for me; I get

FATAL: Error inserting quickcam (/lib/modules/2.6.24-17-generic/ubuntu/media/quickcam/quickcam.ko): Invalid module format

[Csomby]

At http://home.mag.cx/messenger/ you click on qc-usb-messenger-1.7.tar.gz (2007-09-02), and that take you here: http://home.mag.cx/messenger/source/. you can find there.

But i wrote mail to the maker of the driver.and he replied this:
"
Does qcset compile if you add “–I/usr/include” manually?
gcc -Wall -O2 -s -I/usr/include qcset.c -o qcset –lm
"

But i cant understand what i should do. i'm not an experienced linux user yet:S any ideas?

[Muchacho_Gasolino]

Hey Csomby,

I think you can fix that by doing

sudo apt-get install build-essential

For some reason gcc on ubuntu doesn't come with the standard c library...

[Muchacho_Gasolino]

Damn; so close..

Everything seems to go great until the line where it tries to load xawtv. Then my screen goes black and I can't do anything except for ctrl-alt-backspace out. The driver compiles, loads, finds the video device fine. I do get

Right now driver is loaded and should be ready to run.
Let's test if user applications can see it, starting with qcset.
Press Ctrl+C to quit, Enter to continue --->

[!] qcset did not found the QuickCam camera

Is that a big deal? Apparently...

If i try to run the install script over again, it says the quickcam driver is loaded already, but cheese can't see anything and xawtv just turns my screen black. Anybody know what the deal is?

[Csomby]

i found the camera, but it cant load the driver... it is so funny

[Limulus]

Yesterday a new driver came out( qc-usb-messenger-1.8.tar.gz)

I can't seem to load http://home.mag.cx/messenger/source/ (I get a timeout error)

Does anyone know of an alternate download link or have a copy of 1.8 they can post?

Thanks!

[Limulus]

I can't seem to load http://home.mag.cx/messenger/source/ (I get a timeout error)

Does anyone know of an alternate download link or have a copy of 1.8 they can post?

Thanks!

Looks like the website is working now; got it

[t35t0r]

I have:

Bus 001 Device 011: ID 046d:08f0 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Messenger

downloaded v1.8 (http://home.mag.cx/messenger/source/...ger-1.8.tar.gz), compiled, and installed:

# lsmod | grep qc
qcmessenger           112584  0 
videodev               29440  2 qcmessenger,usbvideo
usbcore               146028  9 qcmessenger,quickcam_messenger,usbvideo,snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd

the ./quickcam.sh script messes up when it tries to test the camera saying it can't find some (device) file so I quit with ctrl+c and tried ./qcset -i but it doesn't look like it's working properly either:

8$ qcset -i
Name : @�������h���/�.N=
Type :
Channels : 0
Audio devices : 0
Maxsize : 0,0
Minsize : 0,0

Overlay coords: 17,8
Capture size : -1208421272,1
Chromakey : -1208422400
Flags :

Channel : 0
Name :
Tuners : -1081309400
Flags :
Type : (unknown)
Norm : 47093

Brightness : 0
Hue : 33708
Color : 49036
Contrast : 61536
Whiteness : 47097
Depth : 0
Palette : (unknown)

$ ls -l /dev/video*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      6 2008-06-28 12:48 /dev/video -> video0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 0 2008-06-28 12:55 /dev/video0

$ groups
myuser adm dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev fuse lpadmin admin

xawtv and gqcam aren't showing anything. I've gotten this camera to work before in gentoo (2.6.22 kernel I think) and older version of the qc-usb-messenger drivers. I just grabbed the webcam from my windows box on which I tested as working with the logitech utilities.

[t35t0r]

I'm not sure what the problem was, but it started working in xawtv and gqcam after I rebooted the system.