[cpia] Creative Webcam II (Parallel) problems

[j.m.maurer]

Hmmm I had this problem also once... don't know what I did... Doesn't
rebooting  and re-attaching help (if you didn't already tried that 1000
times)?

I remember I tried xawtv and had no problems, but gqcam had some troubles here
also.

    -Marc

Sam Reynolds wrote:

> Well i did this stuff and made some progress.  Everything looks great
> except when i try to run gqcam.  The first time I run it it Seg
> Faults.  From then on it says /dev/video: device or resource
> busy.  Although it does not appear in lsof.  The parport_probe found the
> camera and the cpia_pp said "1 camera found".  I have permissions to
> /dev/video0 which is what /dev/video points at.  Any ideas?
>         -Sam Reynolds
>
> On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, j.m.maurer wrote:
>
> > First I set my parport to ECP mode in my Bios. Then I used kernel 2.2.16
> >
> > with Video for Linux compiled as a module, which is videodev.o I also
> > compiled parport.o and parport_pc.o as a module. Finally under Plug &
> > Play I
> > also compiled parport_probe as a module.
> >
> > After booting the kernel I did the folowing:
> >
> > insmod parport
> > insmod parport_pc
> > insmod parport_probe
> >
> > insmod parport_probe should detect a webcam, which you can see using
> > dmesg.
> > I then downloaded the latest CPIA drivers from webcam.sourceforge.net
> > and
> > installed then using:
> >
> > insmod cpia
> > insmod cpia_pp
> >
> > The insmod cpia_pp then reported "1 cameras found" and all worked fine
> > (try
> > the client that comes with the cpia package). Be sure that there are no
> > errors reported in dmesg, because on a P120 it also reported "1 cameras
> > found" but dmesg showed some errors and it still didn't work, since the
> > parport is not IEEE1284 capable...
> >
> > Hope this helps :)
> > Marc
> >
> >
> >
> >
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