New Logitech Quickcam

[jimarko]

Hi All,

I don't have the USB ID number (I'll add that later this evening, but i think its 0x092, but I have a Logitech Quickcam, and every time I try to test it in GnomeMeeting or AMSN, it locks my computer COMPLETELY. Not even the mighty CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+ALT+F1 can save me.

I've seen that the link below has my Logitech cam as able to work, but i've tried following the instructions, but it still crashes.

The link: http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html


I am probably doing something wrong, but if you could assist me in getting that sorted, I would love y'all for it


Jimmy

[ericesque]

last I heard webcam support was simply sketchy at best for linux. I hope things have changed since I checked last. I'd be interested to hear what others have to say as well...

[loell]

well, my old logitech qiuckcam express works flawlessly on Dapper ..

[jimarko]

Quote me if you will, but if Dapper Drake was a girl, I'd marry it.


I spoke before I tested it 6.0.6, and it works!!!!!!

ZOMG.

[Kratos]

Glad you had such great luck, but I seem to be on the short end of the rope as far as this is concerned.

Just bought a brand new QuickCam Express. Here's the lsusb output.

Bus 003 Device 003: ID 046d:092f Logitech, Inc.

A unique Product ID that I don't see listed on any pages anywhere. Most likely the newest model, guaranteed not to work with Linux for another 10 years.

I've installed spca5xx and v4l, but xawtv gives me gripes.

$ xawtv
This is xawtv-3.94, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.15-26-386)
xinerama 0: 1280x1024+0+0
xinerama 1: 1280x1024+1280+0
WARNING: Your X-Server has no DGA support.
can't open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l: open /dev/video0: No such device
no video grabber device available

I'm probably missing something. But, any advice, condolences, or other forms of pity are accepted. If I don't have any luck in the next few days, I'll keep my reciept and packaging handy and return it to WalMart.

[allenmaher]

Well I bought the Logitech Quickcam Chat after reading that others got it working... and well, it is not for me.

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:092e Logitech, Inc.

I followed the advice on this and other threads and although the spca5xx seems to install and load ok

al@marge:~$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
spca5xx               653808  0
videodev               10144  1 spca5xx
usbcore               139076  5 spca5xx,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd

It gives me no love and /dev/video0 or video anything does not show up.

I have tried the included spca5xx driver, compiled the newest 20060501 version, with and without gcc 3.4. The end result seems the same... I have tried the 386 and 686 kernel... and I have an up to date 6.06 lts installed.

Any other ideas?...

[allenmaher]

OK the reason this cam won't work easily is that the device ID is not recognized by the spca5xx driver.

If you have the source code from the site you can recompile it after editing spca561.h and spca5xx.c duplicating the 0x092c enties (the old version of the cam) and then recompiling and installing... it works but not perfectly, there are some minor diferences between the two, I will play with some settings and see if I can improve it.

It does work in 352x288 by doing this, but you can't get 640x480 stills.

[fragos]

Originally Posted by allenmaher OK the reason this cam won't work easily is that the device ID is not recognized by the spca5xx driver. If you have the source code from the site you can recompile it after editing spca561.h and spca5xx.c duplicating the 0x092c enties (the old version of the cam) and then recompiling and installing... it works but not perfectly, there are some minor diferences between the two, I will play with some settings and see if I can improve it. It does work in 352x288 by doing this, but you can't get 640x480 stills.

I found two places spca5xx.c to edit for 0x092e, well see if that fixes stills.

[fragos]

Aparently others have had success compiling the spca5xx-20060501 driver. I get the following when I do make and can't figure what I missed.

fragos@Geo:~/bin/Quickcam Chat/spca5xx-20060501$ make
Building SPCA5XX driver for 2.5/2.6 kernel.
Remember: you must have read/write access to your kernel source tree.
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/home/fragos/bin/Quickcam Chat/spca5xx-20060501 CC=cc modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-26-386'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `Chat/spca5xx-20060501'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-26-386'
make: *** [default] Error 2

[joao82]

Originally Posted by jimarko Hi All, ... The link: http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html ... I am probably doing something wrong, but if you could assist me in getting that sorted, I would love y'all for it Jimmy

hi! just wanted to say that thanks to this thread and mostly the link you gave, I could perfectly install my logitech quickcam express.
don't really know how... but first i tried the debian package http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/spca5xx-source in that page and nothing showed up on vlc capture or amsn. but then i downloaded the source http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Downl...0060925.tar.gz and compiled it doing "sudo ./gspca_build" and everything went ok now i can see my webcam working in vlc and amsn in Ubuntu Dapper 6.06

thank you so much