Webcam Driver for 11:1 (gspca)

**br073n** · 21-Dec-2008, 17:53

I see in the repositories webcam drivers are available since December 10th, except the gspca driver. Anyone know what's the delay? I've tried to build it from source but it errors out. Using the SRPM from 11.0 (rpmbuild) brings the same sort of errors. Obviously this takes tweaking from someone who actually knows what they are doing.

This is for the Logitech Quickcam Messenger (ID 046d:08da).

**br073n** · 21-Dec-2008, 18:24

Okay, turns out the driver was built into the kernel. However, the webcam is simply not working. I've been following the instructions on the SUSE Wiki, but nothing happens. No picture. Can someone show me a link to diagnostic steps?

**susegebr** · 21-Dec-2008, 19:11

I have 3 webcams all working with the gspca drivers

so installed 11.1 and they wont work

only solution is to install the kernel from the dvd 11.0 and the gspca driver

some warnings for drivers from kminitrd but all is working

so are the webcams

but there are further problems with 11.1

No program Kino the 11.0 version will not install
Knemo for kde3 wont install in kde3 11.1
a total of 12 programs mostly coming from Packman repositorie
wont work in 11.1
Yast in 11.1 is as quick as a turtle

Bottom line i am back on 11.0 with kde3 and kde4 version2
all is working like a charm no problems.

**supertimorplusfort** · 21-Dec-2008, 20:20

Hi, just want to say that I have the same problem in openSUSE 11.1 kernel 2.6.27.7-9-default. Webcam is detected but I don't see anything. Kopete shows nothing, Skype is flickering in green an pink horizontal lines and cheese shows flickering plus a black rectangle in the bottom-right corner. My usb webcam is a

Code:

 lsusb 
046d:092f Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Express Plus

and the driver is spca561

Code:

 lsmod | grep spca
gspca_spca561          12632  0
gspca_main             23880  1 gspca_spca561
compat_ioctl32          8536  1 gspca_main
videodev               35328  2 gspca_main,compat_ioctl32
usbcore               198656  7 gspca_spca561,gspca_main,usb_storage,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd

This is some output "cat /var/log/messages" delivered:

Code:

 kernel: gspca: usb_submit_urb [0] err -28
 kernel: ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: leak ed ffff88006d5ff2d0 (#81) state 2

Well, I really don't know what that error message means but as it used to work with opensuse 10.3 and 11.0 and as we just tried the webcam with kopete on my flatmate's kubuntu 8.10 with the same results, the problem may be more related to the new gspca kernel drivers than to openSUSE. Furthermore I just had a look here Arch Linux Forums / Gspca and Kernel 2.6.27 but the proposed workaround for skype results in

Code:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib64/libv4l/v4l1compat.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

**cocolocko** · 21-Dec-2008, 20:38

All the same Probs for me!
Multimedia seems to be a little heavy for Linux, or what?

Greetings

**br073n** · 22-Dec-2008, 04:05

Then consensus shows so far this latest release has showstopper problems on the gspca drivers. Since I kept the 11.0 release intact on another harddrive, and it works well enough, I'll stay with that for now. Thank you all for helping me check this out.

**dragonbite** · 22-Dec-2008, 08:20

Darn to hear this. I have a webcam I can't get running in my usual distro and just tried it with openSUSE (KDE 4) LiveCD last night and while it looks like is "saw" it (pun intended) I could not get any video, just blackness in Kopete.

Otherwise openSUSE has been the winner of hardware detection for me.

Of course it doesn't help it's a Microsoft LifeCam I won at a computer club meeting.

**br073n** · 22-Dec-2008, 08:27

As with most things I've seen, that LifeCam will probably have a working driver soon enough, if it's not already available. Seems it is associated with the uvc driver. Try it with a LiveCD 11.0.

**tralalire** · 27-Dec-2008, 21:30

My webcam "logitech notebook pro" is working with opensuse11.1 and skype:

Packman repository has been added first.
# zypper in libv4l

then I run skype using:
# LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype

**munuxi** · 29-Dec-2008, 21:24

I understand that skype requires the 32 bit version of v4l1compat.so . How do you get the 32 bit version when running on a 64 bit system? Yast only give you a "libv4l" choice that install the 64 bit version only.