All,
I've been experimenting with Gnophone (which looks really good BTW), but
I am having a few problems with my USB camera. The driver appear to be of
the "derived from probing the black box" variety and the home page for this
work is http://homeconnectusb.sourceforge.net. Aparrently Vista Imaging/3Com
don't want to release the source.
Now, while the simple picture grabber tools are in a released state (and
work by the way), the kernel driver (in CVS) seems to be in poorer not-so-released
kind of state. I downloaded it anyway, and after a few tweaks to get it to
build, I managed to load it into the kernel (2.4.9-ac18). The light on the
camera came on and the logs duly reported the camera as a valid video device.
Removing the kernel module is another story...
Unfortunately, all that came up in Gnophone (and xawtv) was a picture that
looks like it has lost it's horizontal hold, skewing off to the right as
it travels down the screen. The picture does appear to change as I move the
camera around (and it is vaguely recognisabe), so it is doing the right sort
of things. Given that the frame grabbing code works, surely it can't be that
hard to get this thing going properly.
Questions:
1) Has anyone got this vicam kernel module going yet?
2) Does anyone know of plans for developing this driver any further?
3) Is this the right mailing list?
This camera has been out for some time now and it is a good quality camera,
so there must be some interest in getting it to work under Linux.
Ed-T.
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