On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:41:50 +0100, Adrian Shaw <> wrote :
> > The spc900nc is a pwc webcam for sure :)
>
> Yes, it is :) I tried removing and replacing the gspca driver a few
> times, following these emails, and indeed the webcam does not work
> with the gspca driver. The pwc driver works, *sometimes*, and I have
> no idea what is causing it to fail. Sometimes I get a blue screen in
> the Kopete setup window, sometimes I get a black screen. Other times
> I get a picture as it sould be. It seems fairly random!
>
> Fortunately, I bought the webcam as a static weather camera (one
> picture every 2 minutes or so), and this function it performs
> admirably, with the pwc driver under FC5 kernel 2.6.17-1.2174.
>
> I think my previous message to this list regarding the failure of the
> driver under the latest FC5 kernel, 2.6.17-1.2187, probably went
> missing. However, I should probably try again with the newest version
> of pwc (which I now have, from snapshot 10/10 as per Peter Baitz'
> email - sorry it didn't fix the Kopete problem!) before complaining
> again.
>
Hello,
Can you tell us which config you have ?
I'm on Debian Testing with package pwc-source 10.0.12-rc1+final-1
and Kopete 4:3.5.4-2.
Kernel is 2.6.17.11
Thanks,
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