Jonathan Kaye wrote: > 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. <snip> In case anyone is interested, my problem came about because my webcam is now recognised as a v4l2 camera as opposed to a v4l camera. My guess is that this change has come into effect recently and I needed to reconfigure the programs that use the webcam. Cheers, Jonathan
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