EDIT: This is old news. A newer wireless tutorial is here. That one is useable with Debian Lenny but it's outdated a bit as well. Please goto the forum with wireless issues in Lenny. Continue with this tutorial...

Hi and welcome to the wonderful world of quick & easy, brought to you by the latest incarnation of Debian GNU/Linux, Etch. Today, as part of our using Debian for common desktop tasks; like looking at your ugly mug, we'll learn how quick and easy it is to get your web-cam rolling...ah, viewing.

I've got an Ezonics I-Contact Pro web-cam and it uses the spca5xx driver.

With Sarge I had to download the source for the driver and then compile it on my machine. It was really a piece of cake, but here we are at Etch, and like the bcm43xx driver for your wireless card, spca5xx is included now with Etch and it's an m-a away from being useful to you.

This is what I just did, not 3 minutes ago, to view my own ugly, Sunday-morning mug. Too easy:

• I plugged my camera into its USB port on my machine.
• I opened a terminal
• I became root
• I tapped module-assistant like so:

  # m-a auto-install spca5xx

• Then I loaded the driver

  # modprobe spca5xx

• Then I installed camorama

  # apt-get install camorama

• Then I exited out of root.
• I ran camorama
• and there I was

See...Linux is super easy, Debian makes it easier still, and interacting with your computer is fun...no?

This is the web-cam that I have:

Ezonics I-Contact Pro

UPDATE: See this post for the new hotness.

--machiner

7 Jan 2007 08:00
see the forum post - webcam on debian etch

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'Guest'  - Thank you   |69.140.154.xxx |2007-02-22 03:07:47 That was perfect. exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for putting it up. Reply | Quote

machiner  - d'oh   |72.74.124.xxx |2007-03-20 05:51:18 Yeah -- install module-assistant d'oh! Reply | Quote

'Guest'  - re:d'oh   |72.74.124.xxx |2007-03-20 06:30:12 mmm thanks but actually what does "I tapped module-assistant like so" means? (not a native speaker here...) Reply | Quote

machiner  - sorry -- just slang   |72.74.124.xxx |2007-03-20 06:31:34 It means that I used it. Make sure that you have module-assistant installed. Also, build-essential. So: # apt-get install module-assistant It will also install build-essential and some other deps. Rock on. --machiner Reply | Quote

'Guest'  - is there something i'm missing?   |72.74.124.xxx |2007-03-20 05:49:58 deblaptop:/home/sesho# m-a auto-install spca5xx bash: m-a: command not found Reply | Quote

'Guest'  - I can't =/ can u give me ur sources.li   |189.6.82.xxx |2007-04-17 16:07:16 dpkg: erro processando /usr/src/spca5xx-modules-2.6.18-4-686_20060501-2+2 .6.18.dfsg.1-12_i386.deb (--install): pacotes conflitantes - não instalando spca5xx-modules-2.6.18-4-686 Erros foram encontrados durante processamento de: /usr/src/spca5xx-modules-2.6.18-4-686_20060501-2+2 .6.18.dfsg.1-12_i386.deb Reply | Quote

'Guest'  - problem with video device   |86.4.181.xxx |2007-04-03 04:30:07 Hi, I followed your instructions and ths is what I got: bakos:/home/arpi# camorama -D (camorama:3197): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed. VIDIOCGCAP -- could not get camera capabilities, exiting..... bakos:/home/arpi# lsusb Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000000 Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0ac8:303b Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. ZC0303 WebCam Bus 002 Device 002: ID 03f0:2304 Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 656c Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000000 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000000 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000000 bakos:/home/arpi# Could you please advise me how to correct this problem Arpi Reply | Quote

machiner  - why run camorama as root?   |71.243.56.xxx |2007-04-07 14:16:40 Why are you running as root? I'm at a windows box now -- can't see what the "-D" option is...I'm not back online until the 12th april. I looked quickly for a web posted man page for camorama, didn't find one, I'm only here for a few minutes trying to get to everyone. Post your issues in the forum: http://www.debiantutorials.org/talkitup/in dex.php Reply | Quote

'Guest'  - v   |65.23.231.xxx |2007-06-02 04:33:31 Error(camorama) Could not connect to video device (/dev/video0). Please check connection. Reply | Quote

'Guest'  - My webcam driver is working but authenti   |74.117.41.xxx |2007-05-21 08:35:45 My webcam driver is working after following these steps for Logitech quickcam model : STX communicate. When I pluged in my webcam it show it's light blinking that means driver is working but it shows error like.. GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed. Reply | Quote

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