Solved - Logitec Quickcam Messenger

Does anyone knows how to make this thing work or is it simply a device that will only work with Redmond's stuff.

I can't figure it out, and my reading on the matter is not giving any results.

For those interested, here is my solution.

1, Download and intall gspcav1-20070508.tar.gz from http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html
2. Install camstream with Synaptic.

Hope this will be useful to all

SD

[Jerry3904]

Updated the Wiki with this info, thanks.

http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.p...ported_webcams

[m_pav]

From what I tried, that fix is not available for the 6.x versions of mepis because debhelper is the wrong version.
Required = 5.0.37
Available = 5.0.7ubuntu13 and upgrading this to the required version introduces more dependency issues akin to rpm dependency hell. Thank God we have Debian based system.

Mike P

[Jerry3904]

Not sure I get this, m_pav. On 6.5.02 I downloaded the driver package from that link, did make and make install, then modprobe gspca, then lsmod | grep gspca and it is there.

What am I missing?

[m_pav]

Ahh, I got it wrong. I dl the debian src.deb, My mistake - again

I still get an error though

michael@1[gspcav1-20070508]$ make
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/home/michael/Setup Disks/Drivers/Webcams/Linux/gspcav1-20070508 CC=cc modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-27-desktop-smp'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `Disks/Drivers/Webcams/Linux/gspcav1-20070508'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-27-desktop-smp'
make: *** [default] Error 2
michael@1[gspcav1-20070508]$

I'd like to get a webcam running, especially as we have the quickcam messenger at work. I have done a quick google on the error and some have reported it to be a bug. What do you make of it?

Mike P

[Jerry3904]

No idea, though from Googling it looks like it may be a MySQL problem. Did you download the correct package this time (sorry!) for kernel > 2.6.11?

[m_pav]

Yeah, I've got the right one. The site does not provide a md5sum to check my dl against, so there is no way of knowing, even though I've dl it a couple of times with the same result.

Could somebody please provide a md5sum of their downloaded file?

Thanks

Mike P

[m_pav]

It works fine in the latest beta. Must be an issue with my current 6.5 installation. I would be using the beta more often, but the latest nvidia driver from the repos is crashing the system frequently.

Mike P

[m_pav]

I've found the cause of the problem in 6.5, it was whitespace in the path to the file/folder and make could not interpret the whitespace.

I copied the dl file to my home, extracted it, checked the path to file had no whitespace and everything worked fine.

Mike P