[Bug 16727] breezy freezes when camorama/gnomemeeting tries to access webcam

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           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED




------- Additional Comments From greyrod at gmail.com  2005-10-02 22:38 UTC -------
OK herez the solution which I figured out finally after some research and
application of common sense.
first of all u need to know that the spca5xx module which comes precompiled with
the breezy kernel is buggy and u need to get rid of it.
U need to do the following first of all:

#sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname-r` linux-restricted-modules-`uname
-r` build-essential gcc-3.4

now do the following:

#sudo passwd root

and set the root password if u already dont have one
Now do the following

#su
#CC=gcc-3.4
#export CC
#exit
#CC=gcc-3.4
#export CC
#wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20050906.tar.gz
#tar xvfz spca5xx-20050906.tar.gz
#cd spca5xx-20050906.tar.gz
#make
#sudo insmod spca5xx.ko

if the last command does not throw up any error, your module is correctly
compiled. Now do the following:

#sudo modprobe -r spca5xx.ko

Never mind if this throws up an error.
NOw do the following:

#sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx*
#sudo make install
#sudo modprobe spca5xx

Now u should be all set to use ur ICM532 chipset based webcam.

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