Microsoft LifeCam VX-3000

[oldtravelere]

Does anyone know how to obtain drivers for this webcam that will work in Ubuntu?

[Rubberman]

Have you looked here?

http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html

It has an entry for this device. I have found that I could get almost any webcam working using their instructions/tools etc.

[oldtravelere]

Yes. I see that driver gspcav1 is recommended, but I can't see how to download it or install it. How do I do that?

[Rubberman]

Click on the 'download' link at the top of the page. It takes you to where you can get the driver; however, here is a link to it: http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Downl...0071224.tar.gz

[oldtravelere]

OK. I managed to get gspcav1-20071224.tar.gz downloaded to my desktop. Now what do I do with it please?

[oz]

OK. I managed to get gspcav1-20071224.tar.gz downloaded to my desktop. Now what do I do with it please?

Source code has to be compiled and installed. We have a HowTo with instructions for doing that (see post #2) here:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...are-linux.html

Be sure to read any README files that are included within the tarball for any special steps that might need to be taken.

[oldtravelere]

I believe I follow that up to the point of "more INSTALL"

You should now have a new directory, containing all of the source files. To confirm it exists, and to get its name, use the "ls" command again.
Code:

ls

we now need to go into the new directory, so use the cd command:
Code:

cd <directory>

This is where things will differ. Some packages will have an INSTALL or README file which will contain installation instructions. use "ls" to see if the software has an install or readme file. If it does have one, you can use the "more" command to read it, like so:
Code:

more INSTALL

Generally, the final 3 stages are as follows:

more INSTALL causes a problem. Here is my terminal:

phil@ubuntu10:~/src$ tar -zxvf gspcav1-20071224.tar.gz
gspcav1-20071224/cutlog.py
gspcav1-20071224/READ_AND_INSTALL
gspcav1-20071224/gspca_build
gspcav1-20071224/gspca.h
gspcav1-20071224/Makefile.kld
gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c
gspcav1-20071224/license
gspcav1-20071224/changelog
gspcav1-20071224/Makefile
gspcav1-20071224/Mars-Semi/mr97311.h
gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/spca500_init.h
gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.dat
gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.h
gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/jpeg_qtables.h
gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/spca500.dat
gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus/spca505_init.h
gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus/spca501_init-OSX.h
gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus/spca508_init.h
gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus/spca508_init-OSX.h
gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus/spca501_init.h
gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus/spca561.h
gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus/spca506.h
gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus/spca561-OSX.h
gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus/spca508.dat
gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus/spca505.dat
gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus/spca501.dat
gspcav1-20071224/Transvision/tv8532.h
gspcav1-20071224/Pixart/pac207.h
gspcav1-20071224/Pixart/pac7311.h
gspcav1-20071224/Pixart/pac207-OSX.h
gspcav1-20071224/Conexant/cxlib.h
gspcav1-20071224/Conexant/cx11646.h
gspcav1-20071224/utils/spcaCompat.h
gspcav1-20071224/utils/spcausb.h
gspcav1-20071224/utils/spcagamma.h
gspcav1-20071224/Sonix/sonix.h
gspcav1-20071224/Sonix/sn9cxxx.h
gspcav1-20071224/Etoms/et61xx51.h
gspcav1-20071224/Vimicro/hdcs2020.h
gspcav1-20071224/Vimicro/tas5130c.h
gspcav1-20071224/Vimicro/ov7620.h
gspcav1-20071224/Vimicro/tas5130c_vf0250.h
gspcav1-20071224/Vimicro/mc501cb.h
gspcav1-20071224/Vimicro/ov7630c.h
gspcav1-20071224/Vimicro/pb0330.h
gspcav1-20071224/Vimicro/hv7131c.h
gspcav1-20071224/Vimicro/hv7131b.h
gspcav1-20071224/Vimicro/icm105a.h
gspcav1-20071224/Vimicro/pas106b.h
gspcav1-20071224/Vimicro/vc032x.h
gspcav1-20071224/Vimicro/cs2102.h
gspcav1-20071224/Vimicro/zc3xx.h
gspcav1-20071224/Vimicro/vc032x_sensor.h
gspcav1-20071224/decoder/gspcadecoder-OSX.h
gspcav1-20071224/decoder/gspcadecoder-OSX.c
gspcav1-20071224/decoder/gspcadecoder.h
gspcav1-20071224/decoder/gspcadecoder.c
phil@ubuntu10:~/src$ ls
gspcav1-20071224 gspcav1-20071224.tar.gz

phil@ubuntu10:~/src$ cd gspcav1-20071224
phil@ubuntu10:~/src/gspcav1-20071224$ more INSTALL
INSTALL: No such file or directory
phil@ubuntu10:~/src/gspcav1-20071224$

[yancek]

phil@ubuntu10:~/src$ cd gspcav1-20071224

This is where you do the ls command, after you have changed to the gspcav1... directory. I expect you will see it there. After using the tar command, it lists all the files and there is a file labelled READ_AND_INSTALL which you can access from terminal with: more READ_AND_INSTALL. This will allow you to read instructions for the installation.

[oldtravelere]

Yes. There is a READ AND INSTALL file there, and it says

as root
goes to gspcav1 directory and run:
./gspca_build

which produces:

phil@ubuntu10:~/src/gspcav1-20071224$ sudo ./gspca_build
[sudo] password for phil:

REMOVE the old module if present
ERROR: Module gspca does not exist in /proc/modules

CLEAN gspca source tree
rm -r -f *.o decoder/.gspcadecoder.o.cmd decoder/*.o \
.gspca.o.cmd *.o *.ko *.mod.* .[a-z]* core *.i \
*.symvers *.err

COMPILE gspca Please Wait ....!!

INSTALL gspca in the kernel binary tree
mkdir -p /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/
rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx.ko
rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca.ko
install -c -m 0644 gspca.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/
install: cannot stat `gspca.ko': No such file or directory
make: *** [install] Error 1

LOAD gspca in memory
FATAL: Module gspca not found.

PRINT COMPILATION MESSAGES if ERRORS look kgspca.err
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224 CC=cc modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-24-generic'
CC [M] /home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.o
/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:54:27: error: asm/semaphore.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:845:
/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/utils/spcausb.h: In function ‘spca5xxRegRead’:
/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/utils/spcausb.h:95: error: implicit declaration of function ‘info’
/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/utils/spcausb.h: In function ‘spca_set_interface’:
/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/utils/spcausb.h:278: error: implicit declaration of function ‘warn’
In file included from /home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:853:
/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.h: In function ‘sp5xxfw2_init’:
/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.h:122: error: called object ‘info’ is not a function
/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.h:136: error: called object ‘info’ is not a function
/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.h:141: error: called object ‘info’ is not a function
/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.h:148: error: called object ‘info’ is not a function
/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.h:176: error: called object ‘info’ is not a function
/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.h: In function ‘sp5xxfw2_start’:
/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.h:214: error: called object ‘info’ is not a function
/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.h:230: error: called object ‘info’ is not a function
/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c: In function ‘spca5xx_ioctl’:
/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:2463: error: implicit declaration of function ‘video_usercopy’
/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c: At top level:
/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:2604: error: ‘v4l_compat_ioctl32’ undeclared here (not in a function)
/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:2609: error: unknown field ‘owner’ specified in initializer
/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:2609: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:2611: error: unknown field ‘type’ specified in initializer
/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:2615: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c: In function ‘spca50x_create_sysfs’:
/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:2769: error: implicit declaration of function ‘video_device_create_file’
/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:2780: error: implicit declaration of function ‘video_device_remove_file’
/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c: In function ‘spca5xx_probe’:
/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:4301: error: incompatible types when assigning to type ‘struct device’ from type ‘struct device *’
make[2]: *** [/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/phil/src/gspcav1-20071224] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-24-generic'
make: *** [default] Error 2
phil@ubuntu10:~/src/gspcav1-20071224$


I must admit I am lost here.