From lordalgae@yahoo.com  Thu Jul  3 18:49:52 2003
From: lordalgae@yahoo.com (Steve)
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 10:49:52 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [cpia] Web Blaster
Message-ID: <20030703174952.27323.qmail@web41104.mail.yahoo.com>

Hi,

Does anyone have any information about connecting to a
Creative Web Blaster Camera.  The camera gets power
through a keyboard connector and connects to the
parallel port of the PC

My intent is to connect the camera to a PIC
microcontroller or TINI board.

Bit more info about the Camera:
FCC ID: MT2433504
Serial No.: A1397A00931
Part No.: 1100001114
It says it was made in the UK by Vision

The main chips are:
Vision X1920-A 9648 .Z19520
Zilog R2612 Z8932124VSC

I have spent a fair amount of time on google with no
luck and creative isn't being very helpful.  Any
information would be greatly appreciated.

cheers
steve

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From jason@monsterjam.org  Mon Jul 14 22:31:57 2003
From: jason@monsterjam.org (Jason)
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 17:31:57 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [cpia] problem with ezonics ezcam (not pro or plus)
Message-ID: <20030714172731.L84891@monsterjam.org>

I have an ezonics that im trying to get to work. It was previously working
on my workstation (running mandrake 9.0). I gave it to a friend.. Hes
running Mandrake 9.1..
[root@localhost cpia-1.3.0]# uname -a
Linux localhost 2.4.21-0.13mdksecure #1 SMP Fri Mar 14 14:10:36 EST 2003
i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux


I installed the cpia-1.3.0
module and remade my kernel modules..


when I do a  modprobe cpia_usb
it gives no errors and I end up with
[root@localhost cpia-1.3.0]# !lsmod
lsmod | grep -i cpia
cpia_usb                5924   0  (autoclean) (unused)
cpia                   52408   0  [cpia_usb]
videodev                8128   0  [cpia]
usbcore                76608   1  [cpia_usb usb-uhci]
[root@localhost cpia-1.3.0]#

but nothing shows up in proc:
[root@localhost cpia-1.3.0]# ls /proc/cpia/
[root@localhost cpia-1.3.0]#

dmesg shows
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0c.0
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
V4L-Driver for Vision CPiA based cameras v0.8.1
usb.c: registered new driver cpia


and when I try to run camserv, it cant find the camera

[root@localhost bin]# ./camserv
camserv v0.5.1 - by Jon Travis (jtravis@p00p.org)
Syntax: ./camserv <cfg file>
Will try /root/.camserv and /usr/local/share/camserv/camserv.cfg
2003-07-14 17:35:58 [main] Trying to read config file "/root/.camserv":
2003-07-14 17:35:58 [main] Error reading config "/root/.camserv": No such
file or directory
2003-07-14 17:35:58 [main] Trying to read config file
"/usr/local/share/camserv/camserv.cfg":
2003-07-14 17:35:58 [main] Success reading config
"/usr/local/share/camserv/camserv.cfg"
2003-07-14 17:35:58 [camconfig] Using default of "2359296" for
[main]:shm_alloc
2003-07-14 17:35:58 [mainloop] Setup signals
(V4L) video_open: No such device
2003-07-14 17:35:58 [picloop] Error opening video device!
2003-07-14 17:35:58 [main] Picture taker could not be created!

[root@localhost bin]#


any ideas?

regards,
Jason


From jason@monsterjam.org  Wed Jul 16 01:05:00 2003
From: jason@monsterjam.org (Jason)
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 20:05:00 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [cpia] problem with ezonics ezcam (not pro or plus) (fwd)
Message-ID: <20030715200436.L94100@monsterjam.org>

anybody out there?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 17:31:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jason <jason@monsterjam.org>
To: cpia@risc.uni-linz.ac.at
Subject: problem with ezonics ezcam (not pro or plus)

I have an ezonics that im trying to get to work. It was previously working
on my workstation (running mandrake 9.0). I gave it to a friend.. Hes
running Mandrake 9.1..
[root@localhost cpia-1.3.0]# uname -a
Linux localhost 2.4.21-0.13mdksecure #1 SMP Fri Mar 14 14:10:36 EST 2003
i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux


I installed the cpia-1.3.0
module and remade my kernel modules..


when I do a  modprobe cpia_usb
it gives no errors and I end up with
[root@localhost cpia-1.3.0]# !lsmod
lsmod | grep -i cpia
cpia_usb                5924   0  (autoclean) (unused)
cpia                   52408   0  [cpia_usb]
videodev                8128   0  [cpia]
usbcore                76608   1  [cpia_usb usb-uhci]
[root@localhost cpia-1.3.0]#

but nothing shows up in proc:
[root@localhost cpia-1.3.0]# ls /proc/cpia/
[root@localhost cpia-1.3.0]#

dmesg shows
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0c.0
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
V4L-Driver for Vision CPiA based cameras v0.8.1
usb.c: registered new driver cpia


and when I try to run camserv, it cant find the camera

[root@localhost bin]# ./camserv
camserv v0.5.1 - by Jon Travis (jtravis@p00p.org)
Syntax: ./camserv <cfg file>
Will try /root/.camserv and /usr/local/share/camserv/camserv.cfg
2003-07-14 17:35:58 [main] Trying to read config file "/root/.camserv":
2003-07-14 17:35:58 [main] Error reading config "/root/.camserv": No such
file or directory
2003-07-14 17:35:58 [main] Trying to read config file
"/usr/local/share/camserv/camserv.cfg":
2003-07-14 17:35:58 [main] Success reading config
"/usr/local/share/camserv/camserv.cfg"
2003-07-14 17:35:58 [camconfig] Using default of "2359296" for
[main]:shm_alloc
2003-07-14 17:35:58 [mainloop] Setup signals
(V4L) video_open: No such device
2003-07-14 17:35:58 [picloop] Error opening video device!
2003-07-14 17:35:58 [main] Picture taker could not be created!

[root@localhost bin]#


any ideas?

regards,
Jason