compile spca50x

[reggler]

Hi There,

I would like to compile the spca5xx driver in an attempt to get my webcam working with skype that is working with Kopete only... but i'm not getting very far:

root@reg-desktop:~/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224# ./gspca_build 

 REMOVE the old module if present
ERROR: Module gspca does not exist in /proc/modules

 CLEAN gspca source tree
rm -r -f *.o decoder/.gspcadecoder.o.cmd decoder/*.o \
    .gspca.o.cmd *.o *.ko *.mod.* .[a-z]* core *.i \
    *.symvers *.err

 COMPILE gspca Please Wait ....!!

 INSTALL gspca in the kernel binary tree
mkdir -p /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/
rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx.ko
rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca.ko
install -c -m 0644 gspca.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/
install: cannot stat `gspca.ko': No such file or directory
make: *** [install] Error 1

 LOAD gspca in memory 
FATAL: Module gspca not found.

 PRINT COMPILATION MESSAGES if ERRORS look kgspca.err 
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224 CC=cc modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-22-generic'
 CC [M] /home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.o
/home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:54:27: error: asm/semaphore.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:845:
/home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/utils/spcausb.h: In function ‘spca5xxRegRead’:
/home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/utils/spcausb.h:95: error: implicit declaration of function ‘info’
/home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/utils/spcausb.h: In function ‘spca_set_interface’:
/home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/utils/spcausb.h:278: error: implicit declaration of function ‘warn’
In file included from /home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:853:
/home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.h: In function ‘sp5xxfw2_init’:
/home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.h:122: error: called object ‘info’ is not a function
/home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.h:136: error: called object ‘info’ is not a function
/home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.h:141: error: called object ‘info’ is not a function
/home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.h:148: error: called object ‘info’ is not a function
/home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.h:176: error: called object ‘info’ is not a function
/home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.h: In function ‘sp5xxfw2_start’:
/home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.h:214: error: called object ‘info’ is not a function
/home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.h:230: error: called object ‘info’ is not a function
/home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c: In function ‘spca5xx_ioctl’:
/home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:2463: error: implicit declaration of function ‘video_usercopy’
/home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c: At top level:
/home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:2609: error: unknown field ‘owner’ specified in initializer
/home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:2609: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:2611: error: unknown field ‘type’ specified in initializer
/home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:2615: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c: In function ‘spca50x_create_sysfs’:
/home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:2769: error: implicit declaration of function ‘video_device_create_file’
/home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:2780: error: implicit declaration of function ‘video_device_remove_file’
/home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c: In function ‘spca5xx_probe’:
/home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:4301: error: incompatible types when assigning to type ‘struct device’ from type ‘struct device *’
make[2]: *** [/home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/reg/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-22-generic'
make: *** [default] Error 2
root@reg-desktop:~/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224#

Any one a clue what I'm doing wrong?
Thank you for hints or suggestions!
Ron

[GreyGeek]

Re: compile spca50x

Have you installed the linux-headers- (for your kernel), or the kernel source?
build-essential?

Did the instructions for compiling the package you chose include the step:
./configure
??

[reggler]

Re: compile spca50x

Have you installed the linux-headers- (for your kernel), or the kernel source?
build-essential?

Did the instructions for compiling the package you chose include the step:
./configure
??

I did a apt-get install linux-source-2.6.32 but am still getting the same error...
Any other clues?

[oshunluvr]

Re: compile spca50x

Did you say it works with Kopete?

If this is the case I doubt that the driver is your issue.

[reggler]

Re: compile spca50x

Did you say it works with Kopete?

If this is the case I doubt that the driver is your issue.

Yes this is what I said. At first i thought the driver shouldn't be the issue but i just thought i'd give it a shot cause i didn't really have another idea, do you have one then?

[oshunluvr]

Re: compile spca50x

I have a webcam that works with skype. What have you tried to get yours to work?

[reggler]

Re: compile spca50x

I have a webcam that works with skype. What have you tried to get yours to work?

Not much else than plugged it in, went to skype - options - video devices.
In the drop down it says "USB Camera (041e:401c)" (/dev/video0) but when i hit the test button on the right, the botton doesnt seem to get activated and the window behind it stays black.
In Kopete where i actually get an image from the cam it refers to "USB Camera (041e:401c)" as well, so that's gotta be right and the device /ev/video0 exists as well:

reg@reg-desktop:~$ ls -l /dev/video0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 0 2010-09-11 13:08 /dev/video0
then changed the permissions to 755 to make sure my user is able to read it but that didn't change anything on the whole situation...

[GreyGeek]

Re: compile spca50x

Is that option, "USB Camera (041e:401c)", the only one that appears? Did you check the drop down? (Some devices are mis-identified as cameras, or cameras mis-identified as other USB devices.)

If that is the only camera listed then you can try this from a Konsole:

PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so skype

If it works then you can edit the Skype menu option and change the command to:

bash -c 'export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so; skype'

[reggler]

Re: compile spca50x

Is that option, "USB Camera (041e:401c)", the only one that appears? Did you check the drop down? (Some devices are mis-identified as cameras, or cameras mis-identified as other USB devices.)

If that is the only camera listed then you can try this from a Konsole:

PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so skype

If it works then you can edit the Skype menu option and change the command to:

bash -c 'export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so; skype'

Drop down doesn't have another option.
And that preload unfortunately didn't do it and in the console i see a bunch of

reg@reg-desktop:~$ PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so skype
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)

after the preload... not sure what that means...?

[GreyGeek]

Re: compile spca50x

Looks like a permission issue:

You can check that by adding "sudo " in front of that command:

sudo PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so skype

Running Skype using sudo IS NOT something you want to do, but it will help determine if you have permission issues.

[reggler]

Re: compile spca50x

Looks like a permission issue:

You can check that by adding "sudo " in front of that command:

sudo PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so skype

Running Skype using sudo IS NOT something you want to do, but it will help determine if you have permission issues.

Negative getting the same messages if I do it sudo-ed... Also doesn't seem to have anything to do with the actual camera, as i get a bunch of more messages like these when i start dialing someone... maybe a sound issue that ougtha be resolved too...?

[GreyGeek]

Re: compile spca50x

I noticed on a couple laptops that the web camera wouldn't work until I installed Cheese. Apparently it added some needed drivers that Skype doesn't supply? Also, guvcview is a GREAT webcam recorder app.

BTW, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SkypeWebCams

Creative WebCam PD1110 9.10 041e:401c gspca_main
Skype 2.1.0.81: Works fine after running skype like this from the command prompt: "LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype" without the double quotes. If you don't have that library already installed, install it with "apt-get install libv4l-0" first.

My Lucid installation has these gspca webcam driver modules:

/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_conex.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_etoms.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_finepix.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_jeilinj.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_main.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_mars.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_mr97310a.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_ov519.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_ov534.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_pac207.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_pac7311.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_sn9c20x.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_sonixb.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_sonixj.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_spca500.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_spca501.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_spca505.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_spca506.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_spca508.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_spca561.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_sq905.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_sq905c.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_stk014.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_sunplus.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_t613.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_tv8532.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_vc032x.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_zc3xx.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gl860/gspca_gl860.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/m5602/gspca_m5602.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/stv06xx/gspca_stv06xx.ko

and it includes the gspca_main.ko module.

List your modules and see if you have a gspca module already installed:
lsmod | grep gspca

If you have, remove it (rmmod whatever) and then do
sudo modprobe gspca_main.ko

If your camera starts working with Skype then
sudo depmod -a
to make the module load during bootup.

[reggler]

Re: compile spca50x

Okay,

It seems to be a driver issue, I only got:

lsmod | grep gspca
gspca_zc3xx      45189 0 
gspca_main       21199 1 gspca_zc3xx
videodev        34361 1 gspca_main

So I downloaded libv4l-0_0.6.4 from http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/libv4l-0 and installed it but nothing has changed and I was asked if i want to re-install the package... why do I have...
I went ahead and installed Cheese & guvcview. lsmod is still returning the same as before but my cam is working in cheese as well as guvcview but still not in skype...

[GreyGeek]

Re: compile spca50x

Having attempted to compile the gspca driver it's hard to say which driver is modded.
Clear it out
sudo rmmod gspca_zc3xx
sudo rmmod gspca_main

(You may have to reverse the order of those commands if the first one fails because of "dependencies")

My gspca_main.ko file has a date of:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47672 2010-04-16 06:33

so should yours, unless you've recompiled your kernel. If it does then you still have the original gspca_main.ko module. Load it only.

sudo modprobe gspca_main

and then try Skype again from the Konsole with:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype

[reggler]

Re: compile spca50x

Having attempted to compile the gspca driver it's hard to say which driver is modded.
Clear it out
sudo rmmod gspca_zc3xx
sudo rmmod gspca_main

(You may have to reverse the order of those commands if the first one fails because of "dependencies")

My gspca_main.ko file has a date of:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47672 2010-04-16 06:33

so should yours, unless you've recompiled your kernel. If it does then you still have the original gspca_main.ko module. Load it only.

sudo modprobe gspca_main

and then try Skype again from the Konsole with:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype

I got a whole bunch of gspca_main.ko files:

root@reg-desktop:~/Downloads/gspcav1-20071224# locate gspca_main | xargs ls -la-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37648 2009-04-01 15:46 /lib/modules/2.6.27-11-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_main.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37648 2008-11-04 13:01 /lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_main.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38444 2009-04-16 20:42 /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_main.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31468 2009-10-16 11:04 /lib/modules/2.6.31-14-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_main.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31468 2009-11-10 10:53 /lib/modules/2.6.31-15-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_main.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31468 2009-12-08 00:03 /lib/modules/2.6.31-16-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_main.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31468 2009-12-10 11:34 /lib/modules/2.6.31-17-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_main.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31468 2010-01-08 10:55 /lib/modules/2.6.31-18-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_main.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31468 2010-01-27 20:40 /lib/modules/2.6.31-19-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_main.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31468 2010-03-12 00:36 /lib/modules/2.6.31-20-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_main.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31468 2010-03-24 04:32 /lib/modules/2.6.31-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_main.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33788 2010-06-03 18:56 /lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_main.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33788 2010-06-11 05:54 /lib/modules/2.6.32-23-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_main.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33788 2010-08-20 11:22 /lib/modules/2.6.32-24-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_main.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33788 2010-09-01 07:44 /lib/modules/2.6.32-25-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_main.ko

Not quite sure which one it's loading if I do a modprobe gspca_main
Then skype nor cheese would recognize my cam anymore at first. I replugged it and it came back in cheese, then i started skype with LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype and traraaaaaaaaaaaa, there it is, I'm now able to hit the test button and i see the cam image! Cool! Thankss!!! Now i'll start fighting my sound issue i have with skype...
you may even be able to help me out there too...? I do not get my mic to work....i've tried all different things with KMix, installed Audacity so i could see the waves coming in but nothing...i'm not getting it to do anything... any ideas wjhat I should try there?
Thanks!! ))