Hi Debianers, This is a real puzzler and a challenge to all. I'm running Debian Lenny with a 2.6.18-4-686 kernel. My DM is KDE somewhere between 3.5.5 and 3.5.7 as the KDE updates trickle down to testing. I rescued a Trust 120 Spacecam USB webcam that my friend was throwing out because he couldn't get it to work on windows ;-). I rescued it from the dustbin and found that it worked well (it's a cheap camera so "well" means it produced a recognisable image) will the spca5xx driver. The driver stopped working when I upgraded my kernel and I couldn't find the source code to rebuild it for the new kernel. After a few months I noticed that there was a Debian package spca5xx-source and I could build the module for my kernel and it worked!!!!!!!!
For some reason I don't understand the webcam stopped functioning a few days ago. I haven't changed kernels but there have been some minor upgrades of xorg recently. The symptoms are that there is no image for xawtv, ekiga, kopete, that its little light stays on all the time whereas before it would only light up when it was being used by some program and then go off when the program terminated and finally, the whole system would lock up if I unplugged the videocam while the system was running. Even alt-sysrq + b wouldn't work and I had to do a hard reset. Be that as it may, I rebuilt the module (about 5 times) and still no luck. The little light shines and shines. No response from any programs except one. This is really weird: amsn is quite happy with it although the light doesn't go out when I shut down amsn. It still doesn't work with xawtv,ekiga or kopete. Now some information: Yes, I am a member of the video group. DMESG (relevant parts): sn9c102: V4L2 driver for SN9C10x PC Camera Controllers v1:1.27 usb 1-1: SN9C10[12] PC Camera Controller detected (vid/pid 0x0C45/0x600D) usb 1-1: PAS106B image sensor detected PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:11.6 (0000 -> 0001) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.6[C] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 201 usb 1-1: Initialization succeeded usb 1-1: V4L2 device registered as /dev/video0 usbcore: registered new driver sn9c102 usbcore: registered new driver spca5xx /usr/src/modules/spca5xx/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: spca5xx driver 00.60.00 registered This seems ok. LSMOD (relevant bits): spca5xx 642384 0 videodev 21120 2 spca5xx,sn9c102 usbcore 112644 7 spca5xx,sn9c102,usbhid,usb_storage,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd v4l1_compat 12036 1 videodev v4l2_common 20448 2 sn9c102,videodev This seems ok too. LSUSB: Bus 005 Device 004: ID 07ab:fcfe Freecom Technologies Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 005: ID 046d:c03e Logitech, Inc. Premium Optical Wheel Mouse Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0c45:600d Microdia Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Notice that there's no sign of the camera here. Any detectives in the house? TIA, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
