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Hey, realitykid here! :) I'm trying to install the drivers for my Logitech USB Quickcam, but when I go to compile it, I get an error.
Here's the terminal:

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[madkid@mepis1 ~]$ cd /home/madkid/downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6
bash: cd: /home/madkid/downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6: No such file or directory
[madkid@mepis1 ~]$ cd /home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6
[madkid@mepis1 qc-usb-0.6.6]$ make all
awk: cmd. line:1: fatal: cannot open file `/lib/modules/2.6.32-1-mepis-smp/build/include/linux/version.h' for reading (No such file or directory)
/bin/sh: line 0: [: -ge: unary operator expected
/bin/sh: line 0: [: -ge: unary operator expected
cc -I/lib/modules/2.6.32-1-mepis-smp/build/include -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -DNOKERNEL -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -DHAVE_UTSRELEASE_H= -pipe -c qc-driver.c
make: cc: Command not found
make: *** [qc-driver.o] Error 127


Anyway, I'd really like to get my webcam working. I know it'll work in Linux because I got it to work in Ubuntu 9.04 about three or so years ago. Any help will be appreciated. :) Thank you for your time and consideration. :)

EDIT: If it helps at all, the drivers are located at http://qce-ga.sourceforge.net.

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I cannot really help you out.. all I know is that my webcam worked out of the box on my mepis 8.0. Have you tried it out yet before trying to install the driver?

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If the webcam is three or four years old, chances are good the drivers have made it into the kernel. If not:

The driver version you're trying to build may not be compatible with the 2.6.32 kernel.

or

Have you set up all the driver build tools yet? The quick way is to run in the terminal:

su -c 'm-a prepare'

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Eadwine Rose wrote:
I cannot really help you out.. all I know is that my webcam worked out of the box on my mepis 8.0. Have you tried it out yet before trying to install the driver?


Yes, I have tried it. And it doesn't work for some reason. Unless there is a certain piece of software that I need.

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The error message was that it can't find "make". Again, you need to run

su -c 'm-a prepare'

to install your kernel headers and the build tools, which includes make along with compilers.

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Stevo wrote:
The error message was that it can't find "make". Again, you need to run

su -c 'm-a prepare'

to install your kernel headers and the build tools, which includes make along with compilers.


Alright, I did that, tried the make all command again and all I got was this:

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madkid@mepis1 ~]$ cd /home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6
[madkid@mepis1 qc-usb-0.6.6]$ make all
make -C "/lib/modules/2.6.32-1-mepis-smp/build" SUBDIRS="/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6" modules V=1 USER_OPT="-DHAVE_UTSRELEASE_H=1"
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-1-mepis-smp'
make -C /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-1-mepis-smp \
KBUILD_SRC=/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-1-common \
KBUILD_EXTMOD="/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6" -f /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-1-common/Makefile \
modules
/bin/sh: /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-1-common/scripts/gcc-x86_32-has-stack-protector.sh: No such file or directory
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-1-common/arch/x86/Makefile:81: stack protector enabled but no compiler support
test -e include/linux/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || ( \
echo; \
echo " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \
echo " include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing."; \
echo " Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it."; \
echo; \
/bin/false)
mkdir -p /home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/.tmp_versions ; rm -f /home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/.tmp_versions/*
make -f /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-1-common/scripts/Makefile.build obj=/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6
gcc-4.3 -Wp,-MD,/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/.qc-driver.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.3.2/include -Iinclude -Iinclude2 -I/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-1-common/include -I/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-1-common/arch/x86/include -include include/linux/autoconf.h -I/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6 -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-format-security -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -Os -m32 -msoft-float -mregparm=3 -freg-struct-return -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=generic -Wa,-mtune=generic32 -ffreestanding -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -fomit-frame-pointer -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -fno-strict-overflow -DNOKERNEL -DHAVE_UTSRELEASE_H=1 -DMODULE -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(qc_driver)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(quickcam)" -c -o /home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.o /home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c
In file included from /home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c:47:
/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/quickcam.h:129:1: warning: "BIT" redefined
In file included from /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-1-common/include/linux/kernel.h:15,
from /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-1-common/include/linux/cache.h:4,
from /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-1-common/include/linux/time.h:7,
from /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-1-common/include/linux/videodev2.h:60,
from /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-1-common/include/linux/videodev.h:17,
from /home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/quickcam.h:95,
from /home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c:47:
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-1-common/include/linux/bitops.h:6:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c: In function 'qc_i2c_init':
/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c:824: error: 'struct urb' has no member named 'lock'
/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c:825: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c: In function 'qc_proc_create':
/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c:997: error: 'struct proc_dir_entry' has no member named 'owner'
/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c: In function 'qc_proc_init':
/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c:1035: error: 'struct proc_dir_entry' has no member named 'owner'
/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c: In function 'qc_isoc_start':
/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c:1867: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c: In function 'qc_v4l_poll':
/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c:2256: error: 'struct video_device' has no member named 'priv'
/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c: In function 'qc_v4l_open':
/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c:2308: error: 'struct video_device' has no member named 'priv'
/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c: In function 'qc_v4l_close':
/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c:2376: error: 'struct video_device' has no member named 'priv'
/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c: In function 'qc_v4l_read':
/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c:2424: error: 'struct video_device' has no member named 'priv'
/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c: In function 'qc_v4l_mmap':
/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c:2479: error: 'struct video_device' has no member named 'priv'
/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c: In function 'qc_v4l_ioctl':
/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c:2511: error: 'struct video_device' has no member named 'priv'
/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c:2529: error: 'struct video_device' has no member named 'type'
/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c: At top level:
/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c:3008: error: unknown field 'type' specified in initializer
/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c:3009: error: unknown field 'hardware' specified in initializer
/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c:3013: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c: In function 'qc_usb_init':
/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c:3158: error: 'struct video_device' has no member named 'priv'
make[4]: *** [/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [_module_/home/madkid/Downloads/qc-usb-0.6.6] Error 2
make[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-1-mepis-smp'
make: *** [quickcam.ko] Error 2


Any other ideas?

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I would guess that old source is not going to work with the newer kernels.

Can you plug in the camera, then execute

dmesg

in the terminal, then paste the last ten or so lines in a post here?

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Stevo wrote:
I would guess that old source is not going to work with the newer kernels.

Can you plug in the camera, then execute

dmesg

in the terminal, then paste the last ten or so lines in a post here?


Yeah! No problem there.

Quote:
=============>ARFR0+rate_index*4:0xff5
<=====rtl8192SU_link_change 2
usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=092e
usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
usb 2-1: Product: Camera
usb 2-1: Manufacturer:
usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
gspca: probing 046d:092e
gspca: probe ok


I believe that it is also picking up my wireless adapter.

Thanks for the help so far. :)

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{quote]usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=092e[/quote]

OK, the usb ID (046d:092e) is very useful as something to paste into a web search. Almost always someone else has had the same troubles.

Looks like gspca (which is built into the kernel) probed the webcam, but did not find a driver that matched the USB ID.

OK, that USB ID leads here: http://lwn.net/Articles/291036/

which suggests that the kernel's gspca_spca561 driver should support the camera. Let's ask the driver if it should:

modinfo -k 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp gspca_spca561 (had to do the -k kernelversion since I'm not running the Mepis kernel right now)

Output:

filename: /lib/modules/2.6.32-1-mepis-smp/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_spca561.ko
license: GPL
description: GSPCA/SPCA561 USB Camera Driver
author: Michel Xhaard <mxhaard@users.sourceforge.net>
alias: usb:vABCDpCDEEd*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
alias: usb:v10FDp7E50d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
alias: usb:v060BpA001d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
alias: usb:v04FCp0561d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
alias: usb:v046Dp092Fd*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
alias: usb:v046Dp092Ed*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
alias: usb:v046Dp092Dd*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
alias: usb:v046Dp092Cd*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
alias: usb:v046Dp092Bd*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
alias: usb:v046Dp092Ad*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
alias: usb:v046Dp0929d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
alias: usb:v046Dp0928d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
alias: usb:v0458p7004d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
alias: usb:v041Ep403Bd*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
alias: usb:v041Ep401Ad*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
depends: gspca_main
vermagic: 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp SMP preempt mod_unload 686

Well, it says it should...I am kind of stumped now. How about forcing the driver to load after plugging in the webcam:

su -c 'modprobe gspca_spca561'

And if that does not get it working, posting the end of the dmesg output again?

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It still doesn't work. Unless I'm using the wrong software. When I plug the webcam in, the green light flashes. But when I load Camorama Webcam Viewer, it says it's unable to capture an image, closes, and the green light goes out. I've also tried using Cheese, which just doesn't capture the image either. Here's what you wanted from the CLI:

Quote:

=============>ARFR0+rate_index*4:0xff5
<=====rtl8192SU_link_change 2
usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 8
usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=092e
usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
usb 2-1: Product: Camera
usb 2-1: Manufacturer:
usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
gspca: probing 046d:092e
gspca: probe ok

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