Hi Guys

I was wanting to have a go at getting my Creative PD1001/EP800 USB Webcam going, to use with Motion and/or LiveTV (v4L device)

I plug it in and lsusb is good, saying
"Bus 003 Device 003: ID 041e:400d Creative Technology, Ltd WebCam PD1001"

Google'd "Creative PD1001 Linux", and also took the cam apart and found out that my chipset is EP800, which uses the epcam linux driver. Tried a modprobe epcam, came up with "FATAL: Module epcam not found."

The only instructions of help I could find told me to download a diff file and patch it into the kernel, recompile etc..... I would have absolutely no idea what or how to do this......

Could anyone please help ?????

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Thanks in advance
Matt Shaw
matt@shagshaw.com

AMD Sempron 2400+ on Via Motherboard,
512MB Ram, 160GB IDE HDD,
Nvidia Geforce FX5500 128MB TV-Out,
2 x Twinhan DVB-T BT878 (Freeview UK)
KnoppMYTH R5F27

Hi,

Discovered similar trouble with my Logitech usb cam also.

Mike

There is no epcam in the kernel. According to the link I found, the kernel needs to be patched. The patch I found is for 2.6.1 which doesn't apply cleanly to my latest kernel. NOTE: For future reference, it would help if you included links to what you google'd.

OK cesman, will do, and thanks for your efforts.

Does this mean that if I find the relevant patch, you can get it built into next release kernel ???

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Thanks in advance
Matt Shaw
matt@shagshaw.com

AMD Sempron 2400+ on Via Motherboard,
512MB Ram, 160GB IDE HDD,
Nvidia Geforce FX5500 128MB TV-Out,
2 x Twinhan DVB-T BT878 (Freeview UK)
KnoppMYTH R5F27

Hi Cecil/Everyone

Just had another look, the patch file can be found at

http://members.chello.nl/~j.vreeken/se401/

from the text on the page should work fine with our kernel (2.6.18-chw-13-10.00.Custom), as cut'n'pasted below:

Version 0.7 now supports the 2.6 kernel.
epcam-linux-2.6.1.rxq3.diff (v0.7, patch against 2.6.1 but should apply to later kernels too.)

Can this please be included in next release (or can I have some hints in applying the patch myself ???)

Thanks in advance

_________________
Thanks in advance
Matt Shaw
matt@shagshaw.com

AMD Sempron 2400+ on Via Motherboard,
512MB Ram, 160GB IDE HDD,
Nvidia Geforce FX5500 128MB TV-Out,
2 x Twinhan DVB-T BT878 (Freeview UK)
KnoppMYTH R5F27

That was the link I found. Again, it doesn't apply cleanly to my kernel. The kernel I use is vanilla w/ a few choice patches.