spca50x kernel module

Vanquirius · Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 5:57 pm Post subject: spca50x kernel module

Hello,

I'm trying to make my Intel PC Easy Camera work with Linux. The spca50x drivers supposedely work with this camera, but I'm having trouble compiling them.
The last kernel version it is said to be working with is 2.4.21_pre5; I'm trying to compile it against 2.4.24_pre3. Trying against the 2.6 series just yields tons of errors, I might put some work on that if I can get this working with 2.4 in the first place.
Anyway, I get a linker error when I try to compile this baby:

coondog · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 3:00 am Post subject:

well i have the same camera and have been trying to get it to work, what i did to fix that error in the 2.4 kernel is just replace the --relocatable in the makefile and then replace it with -r, it's weird i know but it'll work after that

Vanquirius · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 7:17 pm Post subject:

Awesome

.
Compiled cleanly and beautifully.

Thanks a bunch!

coondog · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 8:34 pm Post subject:

Shit if you get the rest of it to work please let me know, i was able to get the module to compile but that was it

thanks

Vanquirius · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 10:48 pm Post subject:

I got to load videodev.o and spca50x.o cleanly, but no /dev/video is created.

coondog · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 9:59 pm Post subject:

you need to make a link between /dev/video0 and /dev/video my friend

ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video,

tell me how things go i finally wasted a few minutes and now i'm developing the spca50x modules for those guys now ... lol

Vanquirius · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 11:54 pm Post subject:

Thanks for your help, I now have the camera working.

Plugged it in:

Vanquirius · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 4:22 pm Post subject:

Being able to use it with 2.4 is good, but not enough - rebooting is just tedious. Anyone willing to give me a hand with 2.6, please do so.

Here's a good site to start with.

I got a little further down the road with 2.6, here's a patch to where I got so far:

link to patch (my server)
link to patch (GeoCities)

Where I am stuck:

coondog · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 5:32 pm Post subject:

FOR ALL SPCA50X development go to the following links ...
http://www.unibay.biz
http://mxhaard.free.fr

Vanquirius · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 5:57 pm Post subject:

Hey there,

I took a quick look at "spca5xx_mx07012004", would you say it is better to start porting the driver to 2.6 from this version rather than spca50x-0.30? Separating spcadecoder.c does make it more readable...!

Did you start writing anything yet?
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coondog · Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 8:08 am Post subject:

in my opinion take the latest source code from either of the two links and port it. If not you're loosing a lot of upgrades and bug fixes that you will start implementing in the next generation of the module. You know what that means if any copy paste occurs...uh oh

that's what i think ... mxhaard might say differently

misterLu · Guru Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 430 Location: Poland

Hi, i've compiled this driver, but I've no idea how to load it

misterLu · Guru Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 430 Location: Poland

this must be some other problem: