Hi there! There is an additional mini-tool concerning the drivers for Philips WebCams (pwc) to control the cam's internal settings to find at http://www.vanheusden.com/setpwc/ . Perhaps someone is interested to add this package to gentoo's portage tree :-) The package is rather small and essential to users whose web cam has stored faulty settings to get it back working well. CU Ralf
This job can already be done by "camstream", but you are right, perhaps this is nice to have. That also reminds me that pwc/pwcx stuff could need some updating...
Since I compiled setpwc succesfully on my amd64 and really like it I allready thought about making an ebuild. I think it's not neccessary that two people do the work. So should I do it?
I'd never say no, if you like to do so... :) the maintainer himself saw no use in it... :-/
Hm. I'm using camstream, too. But I don't like starting camstream just for making settings. I like setpwc. So I will do it over the next week...
Ok, ok... wrote some ebuild, committed it. amd64 team, please check and keyword for your arch, then we can close this one.
this is a 32bit binary. it can't be inserted in a 64bit kernel
*** Bug 77852 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Simon, which file are you talking about? If I don't have a problem with my eyes (or misunderstand you), neither setpwc nor usb-pwc-re contain binaries. Do you perhaps mix it up with usb-pwcx?
sorry, i actually tested the package in the summary. it compiles fine here, though i can't test it, but can one use setpwc without usb-pwcx? if so, it would make sense to keyword it, otherwise i won't mark it testing
Once upon a time, there was a pwc driver (source) in the kernel, and a binary only module (the developer had to sign some NDA) in the separate package usb-pwcx that you needed to get the highest resolutions/frame rates from the camera. The driver was removed from the kernel, and now there is usb-pwc-re which builds a reverse-engineered driver from source. So please also test usb-pwc-re. Sorry for the confusion. The summary line was written long ago pwc-re existed. According to comment #2, I think it should work.
yes, setpwc works just fine here with the "new" driver, usb-pwc-re. (although I did patch my kernel manually with the pwc-re patch instead of compiling it out-of-kernel)
setpwc works here fine with pwc-re, too (64bit-gentoo)
it's in ~amd64
setpwc 0.9 is out :)
As far as I can see simply bumping the ebuild to 0.9 works fine (current ~x86). However, the list of changes on the homepage indicate dependency on virtual/linux-sources is no longer necessary. It should probably RDEPEND on media-video/usb-pwc-re though. Attached ebuild incorporates these two changes. My testing consisted of compiling and five runs setting various stuff.
Created attachment 57315 [details] setpwc-0.9.ebuild
It includes linux/videodev.h - that's from linux-headers. I don't think that RDEPEND is such a good idea since there are maybe still people who use the old usb-pwcx stuff with older kernels (should still work with setpwc AFAIK).
Comment on attachment 57315 [details] setpwc-0.9.ebuild Okay just bump it then. (obsoleted ebuild above)
