A4Tech PK-635M Webcam Problem

ab44045 · 06-22-2007, 12:10 PM

Hi all,

I'm trying to make my webcam work with debian etch. Although spca5xx drivers claim to run this model, I couldn't achieve this.

I installed spca5xx module by module-assistant:

Code:

# m-a auto-install spca5xx

Here is related parts of some helpful outputs:

Code:

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0ac8:303b Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. ZC0303 WebCam

Code:

$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
spca5xx               642864  0
gspca                 612560  0
zc0301                 44708  0
videodev               21120  3 spca5xx,gspca,zc0301
v4l1_compat            12036  1 videodev
v4l2_common            20448  2 zc0301,videodev
usbcore               112644  7 spca5xx,gspca,zc0301,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd

Code:

$ spcaview
 Spcaview version: 1.1.7 date: 06:11:2006 (C) mxhaard@magic.fr
Initializing SDL.
SDL initialized.
bpp 3 format 15
Using video device /dev/video0.
Initializing v4l.
**************** PROBING CAMERA *********************
wrong device

Code:

$ ls -al /dev/video0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 0 2007-06-22 19:04 /dev/video0

Code:

$ xawtv
This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.18-4-686)
X Error of failed request:  XF86DGANoDirectVideoMode
  Major opcode of failed request:  137 (XFree86-DGA)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  1 (XF86DGAGetVideoLL)
  Serial number of failed request:  67
  Current serial number in output stream:  67

Also camorama says : "Could not connect to video device (/dev/video0). Please check connection."

As I said at the beginning, this model is said to be worked with spca5xx driver, and there are some people on the net who affirm this (saying they have that webcam and it worked well for them).

I also noticed that, although my cam's model is listed as zc0303, the module listed under lsmod is called zc0301. spcaview also mentions about a "wrong model". Maybe this is the problem, but honestly I have no idea about what to do...

Any ideas?