Phillips SPC230NC webcam

[ashleycrue]

I am trying to get my daughters webcam working and after searching the forums for help stiil can not get a picture.
I have a red light on the camera it self but when I open cheese webcam booth it tells me no camera found.

I typed webcam into BASh and got:

reading config file: /home/amber/.webcamrc
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
v4l: open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
no grabber device available

I have v4l installed (v4l2 doesn't come up when I search synaptic) I think this may have something to do with the problem.

Thanks

Ashley

[dibl]

Re: Phillips SPC230NC webcam

Did you look up the video chip here:

http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html

lspci will show it.

[ashleycrue]

Re: Phillips SPC230NC webcam

No I didn't. Didn't know about, sorry.

I had a look for the webcam and didn't see it (but did see mine listed).

I also did lspci and got this:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 (GMCH) Graphics Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 (CGC) Chipset Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801AA PCI Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801AA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801AA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801AA USB Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801AA SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 09)


Ashley

[dibl]

Re: Phillips SPC230NC webcam

Meh, I meant lsusb -- getting senile here, sorry.

Try lsusb and see if it shows the camera and bus ID.

[ashleycrue]

Re: Phillips SPC230NC webcam

thought the results didn't make sense anyway, this is what I got back:

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 093a:262c Pixart Imaging, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04f2:0402 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04d9:0499 Holtek Semiconductor, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0604 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 1.1 Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Ashley

[dibl]

Re: Phillips SPC230NC webcam

So it's this:

ID 093a:262c Pixart Imaging, Inc.

I don't see that ID on the Pixart list at mxhaard. I think that means that the gspca driver doesn't support it.

I'm not sure what your options are here -- that camera may not work with Linux at all.