Today I bought a Logitech quickcam e2500. The webcam is good looking, slim build and sports a 1.3 mega-pixel photos and a decent 640x480 VGA camera. You can look at the camera
hereTo get it working for Linux, I used these procedures -
$ lsusb | grep Log
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 046d:089d Logitech, Inc.
So, basically I sat down couple of hours ago to make it work on my Linux box; couple of head banging for not remembering the module parameters and it was finally done. The following are the steps I took to make it work -
1) Downloaded gspca source
* wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/gspcav1-20071224.tar.gz
* tar -xvf gspcav1-20071224.tar.gz
2) Downloaded a patch specific to my webcam -
* wget http://forums.quickcamteam.net/attachment.php?aid=86 -O patch.tar.gz
* tar -xvf patch.tar.gz
* cd gspcav1-20071224
* patch -p1 < ../quickcamE2500.diff
3) Compiled and installed the patched kernel module -
* cd gspcav1-20071224;
* make;
* sudo cp gspca.ko /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/ubuntu/media/gspcav1/
4) Reloaded the gspca module with additional parameters -
* sudo modprobe -r gspca;
* sudo modprobe gspca autoexpo=0 gamma=2
5) Installed gstfakevideo for skype since it used 90% of my CPU when video was enabled. More info is available here
* svn checkout http://gstfakevideo.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ gstfakevideo ('subversion' package must be installed)
* cd gstfakevideo
* make
* sudo make install
* sudo mv /dev/video0 /dev/video1
* ./gstfakevideo v4lsrc device=/dev/video1 ! ffmpegcolorspace (this will fire off skype)
5) Tried each of the following -
* xawtv (worked)
* mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l:width=352:height=288:outfmt=yv12:device=/dev/video0 (worked)
* skype (worked after I provided the module parameters "autoexpo=0 gamma=2")
* ekiga (worked)
* cheese ( this didn't work for me )
Be patient :)
Have fun! :)
nepbabu wrote