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From: Francesco Talamona <francesco.talamona@××××.eu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: media-video/gspcav1 or kernel module?
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:14:43
Message-Id: 200902081114.39864.francesco.talamona@know.eu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] media-video/gspcav1 or kernel module? by Iain Buchanan
1 On Sunday 08 February 2009, Iain Buchanan wrote:
2 [...]
3 > I recently upgraded from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28.  My el-cheapo webcam
4 > (lsusb: 0c45:602c Microdia Clas Ohlson TWC-30XOP WebCam) used the
5 > media-video/gspcav1 driver, but that no longer compiles:
6 >
7 > /var/tmp/portage/media-video/gspcav1-20071224/work/gspcav1-20071224/g
8 >spca_core.c:54:27: error: asm/semaphore.h: No such file or directory
9 > /var/tmp/portage/media-video/gspcav1-20071224/work/gspcav1-20071224/g
10 >spca_core.c: In function 'spca5xx_ioctl':
11 > /var/tmp/portage/media-video/gspcav1-20071224/work/gspcav1-20071224/g
12 >spca_core.c:2463: error: implicit declaration of function
13 > 'video_usercopy'
14 >
15 > etc.
16 >
17 > I discovered a number of gspca modules in the kernel:
18 >
19 > gspca_spca508
20 > gspca_spca506
21 > gspca_spca505
22 > gspca_spca500
23 > gspca_spca501
24 > gspca_spca561
25 [...]
26
27 If you boot 2.6.26 it should be easier to spot the right module. Anyway
28 I encountered the same problem with my gspca561, IIRC there's a problem
29 with 2.6.28 kernel.
30
31 Waiting for a kernel upgrade I lent my webcam to a vista user...
32
33 HTH. Ciao
34 Francesco
35
36
37 --
38 Linux Version 2.6.28-gentoo, Compiled #2 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 26 08:55:48
39 CET 2008
40 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4018.04 Bogomips Total
41 aemaeth

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: media-video/gspcav1 or kernel module? Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>