when i compile the driver it compiles fine (no errors), then i enabled it in the genkernel by setting it as a module in video capture adapters--quickcam colur video for linux when i try to use it by running it in spcaview it begins to open the video and just freezes up my computer. I have to press the power button to restart it freezes that bad. i dont know what to do. your help would be most appreciated! :) ========================================================= emerge --info Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 19:59:01 +0000 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ " LINGUAS="" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dfx 3dnow X aac aalib alsa aspell avahi berkdb bitmap-fonts clamav cli crypt cups dbus divx dlloader dri dvd elibc_glibc ffmpeg flash foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimp-print gnome gnustep gpm gtk gtk2 hal howl ieee1394 imagemagick imlib input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jpeg jpeg2k kernel_linux libg++ ming mmx mng mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly opengl pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python quicktime readline real reflection session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU v4l v4l2 video_cards_apm video_cards_ark video_cards_ati video_cards_chips video_cards_cirrus video_cards_cyrix video_cards_dummy video_cards_fbdev video_cards_glint video_cards_i128 video_cards_i740 video_cards_i810 video_cards_imstt video_cards_mga video_cards_neomagic video_cards_nsc video_cards_nv video_cards_rendition video_cards_s3 video_cards_s3virge video_cards_savage video_cards_siliconmotion video_cards_sis video_cards_sisusb video_cards_tdfx video_cards_tga video_cards_trident video_cards_tseng video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_via video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo videos win32codecs wmp wmv x86 xinerama xorg xv xvid yahoo zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Well, something interesting in syslog at least? Hard to guess ;)
Same problem for me. When spaceview (or also qgview) start to read video, my computer completly freeze. After restart I find no messag in any log :/ After some googling, It seems to me that the probleme is related to ggc4, but I don't know what to do with this ..... :) localhost ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Sempron(tm) Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4 Last Sync: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:00:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://194.117.143.71/mirrors/gentoo http://194.117.143.71 http://194.117.143.69" LANG="fr_FR@euro" LC_ALL="fr_FR@euro" LINGUAS="fr en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/ifolder-overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa avahi avi berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin cairo cdr cli crypt cups dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdr eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd exif fam firefox fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imap input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kernel_linux libg++ linguas_en linguas_fr mad mikmod mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nojython norhino nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png ppds pppd python quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia vorbis win32codecs xml xorg xv zlib"Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
yeah, exactly the same! and no nothing is in syslog. i hope a fix comes out soon.
spca5xx is dead upstream, they are redoing the driver for v4l2 and renaming it gspca. No code is available yet. The latest release works on my kits, x86_64/2.6.17 and x86/2.6.16 both use gcc 3.4. You could try recompiling your kernel with gcc-3.4 and then re-merging spca5xx, though the version claims to be gcc-4.1.0 compatable. One thought, don't use USB keyboards/mice on the same controller as your camera. This has been known in the past to cause some problems. I'll test gcc4 on my x86 boc, but I suspect it'll work fine.
I tested with gcc4.1, worked just fine.
well it doesnt work on mine.. so your saying the best thing to do now would be to switch back to a earlier gcc version and recompile my kernel? Then Ofcourse reemerge spca5xx? all i have is two usb ports being used out of the 5. one is to my webcam (logitech quickcam IM) and my printer.
and what exact version of gcc do you know that works... gcc-3.4.5-r2 or what.. please say exactly which one...
okay your idea worked. i emerged gcc-3.4.5 and also i wanted to tell you, that u can have 2 versions of gcc runing at once all u need to do is emerge the other version of gcc and switch to the other version of gcc by running(for example) gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.5 then update ur profile (source /etc/profile). after that you must compile your kernel with the older gcc. once i did this then i rebooted and emerged spca5xx driver then emerged spcaview Boom! thats it. i hope they fix this newer version of this driver with gcc-4.1. anyways thank you for all your help! cody oh and dont run gcc-config -L like you would java because it doesnt show all versions of gcc. just the first one u emerged
