Webcam

[Thomas Kaiser (ubuntu)]

Hello Kush
Kush Singh wrote:
> http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html
The spca5xx driver supports a lot of webcam, also zc0301p based cams. If 
you run Breezy, spca5xx is already included in the kernel :-)

Find the Vendor and Product ID of your cam. Issue the command "lsusb" 
with the cam connected. Check http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html to see 
if your Vendor and Product ID is supported. If yes, your cam should 
work. Follow these steps to get spca5xx loaded:

- Remove the zc030x module "sudo modprobe -r zc030x" or "sudo rmmod zc030x"

- Load spca5xx module "sudo modprobe spca5xx"
   (if it does not load you have to load videodev, too "sudo modprobe 
videodev")

- Check /var/log/kern.log to see if your cam is detected

- If detected, use it :-)

If it is your only video device, the v4l app should connect to 
/dev/video0. If it is your second /dev/video1 and so on.

If you find the Vendor and Product ID on 
http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html, but it refers to an other Model, 
just mail me or spca50x-devs at lists.sourceforge.net to get your cam added 
to the list.

If the Vendor and Product ID is NOT listed, you should find out the 
correct chip (bridge) and sensor of your cam. Maybe an other cam has the 
same bridge(chip combination already. Then, we just have to add the 
Vendor and Product ID to the probing routine and the cam should work.

Here is a howto for finding the sensor on a windows machine 
http://zc0302.sourceforge.net/docs/HOWTO-Finding_the_sensor_type.html#detecting_sensor. 
"B) Detecting the sensor type with RegMon"

Hope this info helps :-)

Regards, Thomas


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