My sincere thanks to Aaron for taking this on!! I had much success with the Veho 004, but at now $99 a piece I can't afford to buy more of them for my trip to the Philippines this June. I have 2 of these Intel Play from 5 years ago that still work perfectly well with Windows but hoping they get more use by kids in the Philippines. They are also much cheaper (some going for $15 each on eBay).
Somebody forwarded this UI that might work if I had the modules set-up (which I really don't have a clue how to do): http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtx3/ Might not work with Sugar but it looks like it can work with GNOME? Grateful, Cherry On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Aaron Borden <adbor...@live.com> wrote: > On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 18:15 -0500, Chris Ball wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, Mar 06 2011, Cherry Withers wrote: > > > Hi Folks, > > > > > > I'm starting to figure out that because the Intel QX3 microscope has an > > > CPiA chipset, it may not be supported by > > > cheese (which takes V4L/V2L devices) but needs a special cpia driver > that > > > can be found in: > > > http://webcam.sourceforge.net/ > > > > This is outdated information (site last updated in 2003!). The drivers > > have been merged into the main Linux kernel now; it looks like you just > > need to turn on CONFIG_USB_GSPCA_CPIA1=m and build gspca_cpia1.ko from > > drivers/media/video/gspca/cpia1.c. > > > > Since our kernels already have CONFIG_USB_GSPCA=m, you can build this > > module without having to recompile your current kernel. > > Thanks Chris, > > I'm helping Cherry, getting this driver compiled. She's using a 2.6.31 > kernel (the 10.1.3 build I think) which doesn't have the gspca_cpia1 > driver. > > I looked into back-porting the driver to 2.6.31, there's only a handful > of compile errors but it still might be more work than it's worth. > > I did a quick trial with the v4l1 cpia driver and it works with > gstreamer, so it's just a matter of getting cheese to detect it. My > initial investigation leads me to believe that cheese uses HAL to detect > v4l capable devices and the QX3 isn't showing up as v4l capable, so I'll > look into this a bit more. > > Any other ideas are welcome :) > > -Aaron > > > >
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