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Installing a Webcam in Ubuntu Edgy   James - Monday, January 15, 2007, 11:25 pm

Here are my notes about how to install a webcam in Ubuntu Edgy. Please note that I am not yet successful, but I have made some progress so that hopefully someone will find this somewhat useful.

Read this page first. Also check out this page, which is more specific to my camera (see below).

Modify the /etc/apt/sources.list file by typing "sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list".

Make sure that the universe repository is uncommented.

Add 'deb http://blognux.free.fr debian unstable main' to install easycam.

Run 'sudo apt-get update' to update the software listings

Run 'sudo apt-get install easycam'

Run 'sudo apt-get install camorama'.

Run 'sudo apt-get install xawtv'

You should be able to run easycam from the System->Administration menu. Unfortunately, my cam (ID 2770:9120 NHJ, Ltd Che-ez! Snap / iClick Tiny VGA Digital Camera) wouldn't autodetect. Looks like someone has here.

I changed /usr/share/EasyCam2/drivers/sqcam to comment out sq905.c, line 855 (USB owner).

Replace the line:

if (remap_page_range(vma, start, page, PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SHARED)) {

with:

if (remap_pfn_range(vma, start, page >> PAGE_SHIFT, PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SHARED)) {

Save and close. Compile with 'sudo make'.

If that doesn't work due to a missing build directory, do the following:

cd /lib/modules/2.6.17-11-386 (or whatever uname -r gives you)

mkdir build

cd build

sudo ln -s /boot/config-2.6.17-11-386 .config (Fix as appropriate)

$ sudo cp sqcam.ko /lib/modules/uname -r/kernel/drivers/usb/media/ (I had to create the media directory)

$ sudo depmod -a (this command took a long time to execute)

$ sudo modprobe sqcam

I had to reboot once after playing with the driver. If you need to replace the driver, use 'sudo modprobe -r sqcam' to remove the driver, before recopying the driver.

I tested with xawtv, as it seemed to detect everything better. I then added a script to take shots with streamer:

streamer -o xxx.jpeg

Streamer seems to like the jpeg extention better, so I just used that command, then renamed the resulting file to jpg.



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