[Ekiga-list] problem with 120 Spacecam

[Jonathan Kaye]

David Ford ha escrit el 16/07/07 17:15:
> Hi Jonathan
> I had a similar problem - stopping modprobe loading both the spca5xx and 
> sn9c102 modules fixed it for me. The spca5xx worked with everything 
> where the sn9c102 only half worked with some programs.
> David
>
> Jonathan Kaye wrote:
>   
>> Hi Ekiga-ers,
>> This is a real puzzler and a challenge to all. I'm running Ekiga 2.0.3
>> on 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) with
>> 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!!!!!!!!
>>
>>     
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Thanks for the speedy answer, David. I'm not really sure about the
relation between the spca5xx and the sn9c102 modules. Anway, I can give
it a try. Is the best way to prevent it from loading to remove
sn9c102.ko from the  lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/modules.dep file?
Cheers,
Jonathan