I'm trying to get a C.U.C.US Dragon Eye USB notebook cam working under Linux. It's supposed to work with the CPiA driver according to one report I've found on the web. Hasn't for me, so please advice.
First up I've compiled a kernel (2.4.12) with the following options: USB support ---> [*] Preliminary USB device filesystem <*> Support for USB <*> UHCI Alternate Driver (JE) support Multimedia devices ---> Video For Linux ---> [*] V4L information in proc filesystem <M> CPiA Video For Linux <M> CPiA USB Lowlevel Support Then I created a video device: mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0 ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video Finally installed gqcam to capture video. /proc/pci lists the following: Bus 0, device 20, function 0: USB Controller: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5237 USB (rev 3). IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x82100000 [0x82100fff]. Activating the driver with "modprobe -a cpia" results in the following: Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.12/kernel/drivers/media/video/cpia.o will taint the kernel: no license But both cpia and cpia_usb are there when I do lsmod. Now /proc/bus/usb/drivers lists the following: usbdevfs hub cpia But /proc/bus/usb/devices is empty. When I invoke gqcam I get the following error: /dev/video: no such device. I'm out of inspiration now. Hints and uplifting suggestions welcome. Thanks --Hans