I'm trying to set up a 'Z-Star Microeletronics Corp.' webcam in this sarge machine (name provided by lsusb, together with '0ac8:305b'. The driver's website http://mxhaard.free.fr claims this is a supported camera). After some googling, I downloaded the spca5xx driver and compiled it with module-assistant. Everything went ok, and modprobe inserts the driver with no apparent problems. The thing is, accessing the camera causes the whole system to freeze. Some tutorials suggest its a gcc version problem between the kernel gcc and the driver gcc. Relevant modules loaded are: spca5xx videodev v4l1-compat v4l2-common usbcore
Other people seem to be using this webcam model quite successfully, with various distros, so I believe its some troubleshootable thing which I am missing badly. Someone help? Also, how do I figure which gcc version my kernel was compiled with? Its a 2.6.8-3-k7 stock. My gcc version is 3.3.5. Is that correct? thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
