[cpia] gqcam with Creative WebCam II

[Sang Y. Yum]

Cory,

I hope you don't mind me asking for technical
assitance but I practically ran out of things to try.

As specified in the subject, I'm trying to get WebCam
II Parallel port version with gqcam. I've successfully
loaded all the drivers without any error. My camera is
detected by the drivers, as shown below:

Mar 12 20:51:11 localhost kernel: bttv0: Brooktree
Bt878 (rev 2) bus: 0, devfn:
120, irq: 10, memory: 0xeddfd000.
Mar 12 20:51:11 localhost kernel: PCI: Enabling bus
mastering for device 00:78
Mar 12 20:51:11 localhost kernel: bttv: 1 Bt8xx
card(s) found.
Mar 12 20:51:11 localhost kernel: bttv0: Hauppauge
eeprom: tuner=Philips FI1236
MK2 (2)
Mar 12 20:51:11 localhost kernel: bttv0: NO fader
chip: TEA6300
Mar 12 20:51:11 localhost kernel: bttv0: model:
BT878(Hauppauge new)
Mar 12 20:51:23 localhost kernel: parport0: PC-style
at 0x378 (0x778) [SPP,ECP,ECPPS2]
Mar 12 20:51:26 localhost kernel: parport0: read2
timeout.
Mar 12 20:51:26 localhost kernel: parport0: Multimedia
device, VLSI Vision Ltd PPC2 Camera
Mar 12 20:51:47 localhost kernel: V4L-Driver for
Vision CPiA based cameras v0.7.3
Mar 12 20:51:47 localhost modprobe: can't locate
module cpia_pp
Mar 12 20:51:52 localhost kernel: Parallel port driver
for Vision CPiA based cameras v0.7.3
Mar 12 20:51:52 localhost kernel:   using PIO mode
Mar 12 20:51:52 localhost kernel:   1 camera(s) found 

When I execute gqcam (0.6 version), the window comes
up but fails to show anything. When I do File->Open
Camera and select /dev/video, gqcam terminates with
the message:

[sang@pikatsu gqcam-0.6]$ ./gqcam
/dev/video: Device or resource busy                   
                             

As you might have guess from the first output, I also
have WinTV tuner card installed, which is configured
and working. I have a feeling that it's somehow
interfering with my WebCam. When gqcam comes up, it
has "Gqcam - BT878 (Hauppaug new)" in the title bar.
Hauppaug is the manufacturer of WinTV tuner card.

Here is the list of modules loaded before I execute
gqcam:

[sang@pikatsu gqcam-0.6]$ /sbin/lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
cpia_pp                18904   0
cpia                   48252   0  [cpia_pp]
parport_probe           3588   0
parport_pc              7604   1  [cpia_pp]
parport                 8084   1  [cpia_pp
parport_probe parport_pc]
bttv                   37432   0
videodev                2592   3  [cpia bttv]
i2c                     4192   1  [bttv]
ip_masq_irc             1456   0  (unused)
ip_masq_raudio          2896   0  (unused)
ip_masq_ftp             3696   0  (unused)
3c59x                  18632   1  (autoclean)
ide-scsi                7584   0
supermount             14880   3  (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1           2052   1  (autoclean)
nls_cp437               3580   1  (autoclean)
vfat                   11004   1  (autoclean)
fat                    32640   1  (autoclean) [vfat]
emu10k1                56212   0
soundcore               3524   5  [emu10k1]

I tried gqcam with bttv module unloaded but that
seemed to remove /dev/video deivce altogether.

Sorry for a length note. If you have any suggestion, I
would really appreciate it.

Sang
                                     


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San Diego, CA           mailto:tdat@yahoo.com
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