[Preston] Re: USB support under Linux

[Guy]

Adrian,
It would appear that the device is detected and relevant modules are loaded.
The important one in this case is the stv680 module. Here is the development 
site for this module:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/stv0680-usb/
Check out the above project homepage and see if you can find any more info 
relevant to your particular camera. See if they recommend a particular piece 
of software that can be used to access it. There will probably be a mailing 
list of some sort you could subscribe to. More than likely it will be for 
developers, but they should be reasonably helpful if you email them.  ;-)

You have got further than I did with my webcam (a D-Link DSC350)- no driver 
module claimed the device. :-/
All is not lost:
http://www.scorpio.uklinux.net/webcam/webcam.html

Regards,
-- 
Guy

On Friday 01 November 2002 9:32 pm, you wrote:

> Guy hope you  do not mind me replying direct as well as via the group,
> and trying to pick your brains but here goes anyway.  It does look to me
> as though the Kernal is recognising something.  But gtkam will not
> access the camera?
>
> Without the USB web cam connected then lsmod reports this :-
>
> module		size		used by		Not tainted
> sb		9024		0	(autoclean)
> sb-lib		39520		0	(autoclean)(sb)
> uart401		7680		0	(autoclean)(sb_lib)
> sound		69516		0	(autoclean)(sb_libuart401)
> soundcore	6244		4	(autoclean)(sb_lib sound)
> autofs		11044		0	(autoclean)(unused)
> ne		7904		1
> 8390		7876		0	[ne]
> ipchains	39464		4
> ide-cd		30432		0	(autoclean)
> cdrom		32032		0	(autoclean)[ide-cd]
> usb-uhci	24324		0	(unused)
> usbcore		71200		1	[usb-uhci]
> ext3		64992		2
> jbd		47220		2	[ext3]
>
>
>
>
> Then I connect the usb camera and wait a few seconds the try again.
> This time lsmod reports :-
>
> module		size		used by		Not tainted
> stv680		24736		0	(unused)
> videodev	7712		1	[stv680]
> sb		9024		0	(autoclean)
> sb-lib		39520		0	(autoclean)(sb)
> uart401		7680		0	(autoclean)(sb_lib)
> sound		69516		0	(autoclean)(sb_libuart401)
> soundcore	6244		4	(autoclean)(sb_lib sound)
> autofs		11044		0	(autoclean)(unused)
> ne		7904		1
> 8390		7876		0	[ne]
> ipchains	39464		4
> ide-cd		30432		0	(autoclean)
> cdrom		32032		0	(autoclean)[ide-cd]
> usb-uhci	24324		0	(unused)
> usbcore		71200		1	[stv680 usb-uhci]
> ext3		64992		2
> jbd		47220		2	[ext3]
>
>
> It does look to me as though the camera is being recognised as and
> stv680 and the kernal is loading something!
>
> When I run gtkam and look for the camera  find a STV0680  I can select
> this but the response is always "unable to initialise camera"
>
> I may well be missing something and I admit to not understanding much of
> this linux system but if you can help and tell me where things are going
> wrong then it would be much appreciated.
>
>
> Cheers Adrian
>