Philips SPC210NC webcam not working

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Al3ks · Post by **Al3ks** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 10:26 pm

Well, first, a BIG hello to the gentoo comunity.

Ok, next ... .) I have a Philips SPC210NC webcam and I'm trying to get it to work with my gentoo linux. I compiled the kernel and specified in Multimedia to have support for Philips and SPCA web cameras. After compiling I get this in dmesg when I put the camera :

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usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
gspca: probing 0471:032d
zc3xx: probe sif 0x0007
zc3xx: probe sensor -> 0f
zc3xx: Find Sensor PAS106
gspca: probe ok

and I have this modules loaded :

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tux ~ # lsmod | grep spc
gspca_zc3xx            47200  0 
gspca_main             20064  1 gspca_zc3xx
videodev               33280  1 gspca_main
usbcore               123824  9 gspca_zc3xx,gspca_main,sl811_hcd,usbhid,ohci_hcd,uhci_hcd,usb_storage,ehci_hcd

Anyhow, the camera doesnt work. Non does the LED flashesh nor any program recognise it. ANy idea how to get it to work ?

Also, I have tried emerging gspca and gspcav1 with no success at compiling cos they allways give me an error :

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 * ERROR: media-video/gspca-01.00.10 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *               ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_unpack
 *             environment, line 3166:  Called convert_to_m '/var/tmp/portage/media-video/gspca-01.00.10/work/gspca-01.00.10/gspcav2/Makefile'
 *             environment, line  768:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *           [ ! -f "${1}" ] && die "convert_to_m() requires a filename as an argument";
 *  The die message:
 *   convert_to_m() requires a filename as an argument

for gspca and :

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 * ERROR: media-video/gspcav1-20071224 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *               ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_compile
 *             environment, line 3151:  Called linux-mod_src_compile
 *             environment, line 2422:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *               eval "emake HOSTCC="$(tc-getBUILD_CC)" 						CROSS_COMPILE=${CHOST}- 						LDFLAGS="$(get_abi_LDFLAGS)" 						${BUILD_FIXES} 						${BUILD_PARAMS} 					${BUILD_TARGETS} " || die "Unable to emake HOSTCC="$(tc-getBUILD_CC)" CROSS_COMPILE=${CHOST}- LDFLAGS="$(get_abi_LDFLAGS)" ${BUILD_FIXES} ${BUILD_PARAMS} ${BUILD_TARGETS}";
 *  The die message:
 *   Unable to emake HOSTCC=i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc CROSS_COMPILE=i686-pc-linux-gnu- LDFLAGS=  KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux default
 *

for gspcav1.

Anyone has any sollution to this problem ? Here is my emerge --info :

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tux ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.6.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo-r7 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_D_CPU_2.66GHz-with-glibc2.0
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:00:02 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r7
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/cmake:      2.4.8
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://mirrors.ludost.net/gentoo/ "
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl alsa berkdb bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dri dvd dvdr fbcon firefox fortran ftp gdbm gnome gpm gtk iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde midi mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pppd python qt3 qt4 readline reflection session spl ssl sysfs tcpd unicode x86 xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Thanks in advance.

Post by **NeddySeagoon** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 1:20 pm

Al3ks,

Welcome to Gentoo and the forums.

Do you have a /dev/v4l/videoX for your webcam, where X is a number starting at 0 for the first device?
If its there, try a nice simple viewer like xawtv. emerge it if needed and run it as

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xawtv -c /dev/v4l/videoX

where X is the number for your webcam

Al3ks · Post by **Al3ks** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 5:22 pm

Yes I have that device node in /dev but when i try xawtv -c /dev/v4l/video0 all I get is a black window with a red mouse cursor. Also the webcam's LED doesn't light up when I plug it nor when I load the modules manually.

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:34 pm

You do not need the seperate gspcav1 drivers from portage if you are using kernel >=2.6.27 which has the drivers included. But you need to emerge media-libs/libv4l. That one contains the userspace components of the driver.

Edit: You can't even compile gspcav(1) against 2.6.27. I assume thats because the driver already is in the kernel.