Easycap DC60 driver problem

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#1

Hello all.

I’m making an attempt to install drivers for my easycap dc60 USB video capture device. Someone was good enough to make a driver project on sourceforge. Problem is I cannot get it compiled.

Building
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jan-bart/Download/easycap_dc60.0.4/src'
make -C /usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r` M=/home/jan-bart/Download/easycap_dc60.0.4/src modules
make: Entering an unknown directory
make: *** /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop: No such file or directory.  Stop.
make: Leaving an unknown directory
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jan-bart/Download/easycap_dc60.0.4/src'
make: *** [build] Error 2

I have kernel-source, kernel-syms and kernel-headers installed and that always worked fine.

I’m currently using the desktop kernel in 11.2

Dexter:/home/jan-bart/Download/easycap_dc60.0.4 # rpm --query --all '*kernel*'
kernel-source-2.6.31.8-0.1.1.noarch
kernel-pae-devel-2.6.31.8-0.1.1.i586
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.31.8-0.1.1.i586
kernel-desktop-2.6.31.8-0.1.1.i586
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.31.8-0.1.1.i586
kernel-default-devel-2.6.31.8-0.1.1.i586
kernel-syms-2.6.31.8-0.1.1.i586
kernel-desktop-devel-2.6.31.8-0.1.1.i586
linux-kernel-headers-2.6.31-3.4.noarch

Any help would be appreciated.

#2

Hi,

The Makefile has been tested for Debian and Ubuntu, but I am beginning to realize that it will need to be modified to cope with other distributions. I’d be interested to hear what works on OpenSUSE. As a first step I’d suggest editing src/Makefile so that the line which sets KERNELDIR becomes something like

KERNELDIR ?= /full/path/to/the/kernel/headers/on/OpenSUSE

That may not be the end of the problems however. On Debian and Ubuntu successful installation of the module is most easily done by running the installation script ./install.sh, and I would recommend trying this. If the installation script fails it will at least generate some diagnostics which might be useful.

Mike

#3

After replacing the kernel dir it complained it did not have a correct configuration. I ran ‘make oldconfig’ and ‘make prepare’. This seemed to satisfy at least that step. Next problem is the following:

jan-bart@Dexter:~/Download/easycap_dc60.0.4> sudo ./install.sh
root's password:
depmod OK
clean OK
compile OK
ERROR:  step failed:  make
/bin/sh: scripts/mod/modpost: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [__modpost] Error 127
make[2]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** [build] Error 2

Any suggestions here? I’m sorry to be asking this but compiling things is not my strong point :slight_smile:

#4

I’m not the best person to advise you on this because I’m not running OpenSUSE myself. Something seems wrong with the kernel headers, but I don’t know what the problem is. I went to Google and searched for

scripts mod modpost not found

and got a couple of hits that might be interesting:

incentivespro.com :: View topic - modpost missing

Cool Solutions: Compiling Kernel Drivers for SUSE 10 By Example

but I’m not sure. I’m sorry I can’t be more helpful.

Mike

#5

I installed openSUSE 11.2 on one of my machines and
investigated. The procedure for building modules on openSUSE is indeed somewhat different from that on Debian/Ubuntu. Therefore in the latest version 0.5 of the easycap driver I have included a Makefile_openSUSE and have added some notes for openSUSE users to the README file. I hope this will make things a little easier. Today I have successfully built version 0.5 of the driver on openSUSE 11.2 against the 64-bit version of the kernel 2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop.

By the way, I like openSUSE. It is the only distribution I know about which provides hardware acceleration with my Radeon graphics card.

Mike

#6

Cheers,
Will give it a try and report back here…

Just for my curiosity, is there an easy (read GUI) way of recording the video? I don’t like using the mplayer way and not be able to see anything whiles it’s recording…

Thanks for your work so far!