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Below you will find an updated version from the original series bunching all patches into one big patch updating broken web addresses that are located in Documentation/* Some of the addresses date as far far back as 1995 etc... so searching became a bit difficult, the best way to deal with these is to use web.archive.org to locate these addresses that are outdated. Now there are also some addresses pointing to .spec files some are located, but some(after searching on the companies site)where still no where to be found. In this case I just changed the address to the company site this way the users can contact the company and they can locate them for the users. Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weber <weber@corscience.de> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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c-qcam - Connectix Color QuickCam video4linux kernel driver
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Copyright (C) 1999 Dave Forrest <drf5n@virginia.edu>
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released under GNU GPL.
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1999-12-08 Dave Forrest, written with kernel version 2.2.12 in mind
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Table of Contents
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1.0 Introduction
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2.0 Compilation, Installation, and Configuration
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3.0 Troubleshooting
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4.0 Future Work / current work arounds
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9.0 Sample Program, v4lgrab
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10.0 Other Information
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1.0 Introduction
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The file ../../drivers/media/video/c-qcam.c is a device driver for
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the Logitech (nee Connectix) parallel port interface color CCD camera.
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This is a fairly inexpensive device for capturing images. Logitech
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does not currently provide information for developers, but many people
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have engineered several solutions for non-Microsoft use of the Color
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Quickcam.
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1.1 Motivation
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I spent a number of hours trying to get my camera to work, and I
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hope this document saves you some time. My camera will not work with
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the 2.2.13 kernel as distributed, but with a few patches to the
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module, I was able to grab some frames. See 4.0, Future Work.
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2.0 Compilation, Installation, and Configuration
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The c-qcam depends on parallel port support, video4linux, and the
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Color Quickcam. It is also nice to have the parallel port readback
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support enabled. I enabled these as modules during the kernel
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configuration. The appropriate flags are:
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CONFIG_PRINTER M for lp.o, parport.o parport_pc.o modules
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CONFIG_PNP_PARPORT M for autoprobe.o IEEE1284 readback module
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CONFIG_PRINTER_READBACK M for parport_probe.o IEEE1284 readback module
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CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV M for videodev.o video4linux module
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CONFIG_VIDEO_CQCAM M for c-qcam.o Color Quickcam module
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With these flags, the kernel should compile and install the modules.
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To record and monitor the compilation, I use:
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(make zlilo ; \
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make modules; \
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make modules_install ;
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depmod -a ) &>log &
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less log # then a capital 'F' to watch the progress
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But that is my personal preference.
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2.2 Configuration
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The configuration requires module configuration and device
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configuration. I like kmod or kerneld process with the
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/etc/modprobe.conf file so the modules can automatically load/unload as
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they are used. The video devices could already exist, be generated
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using MAKEDEV, or need to be created. The following sections detail
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these procedures.
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2.1 Module Configuration
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Using modules requires a bit of work to install and pass the
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parameters. Understand that entries in /etc/modprobe.conf of:
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alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
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options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=none
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alias char-major-81 videodev
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alias char-major-81-0 c-qcam
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will cause the kmod/modprobe to do certain things. If you are
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using kmod, then a request for a 'char-major-81-0' will cause
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the 'c-qcam' module to load. If you have other video sources with
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modules, you might want to assign the different minor numbers to
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different modules.
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2.2 Device Configuration
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At this point, we need to ensure that the device files exist.
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Video4linux used the /dev/video* files, and we want to attach the
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Quickcam to one of these.
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ls -lad /dev/video* # should produce a list of the video devices
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If the video devices do not exist, you can create them with:
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su
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cd /dev
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for ii in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 ; do
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mknod video$ii c 81 $ii # char-major-81-[0-16]
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chown root.root video$ii # owned by root
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chmod 600 video$ii # read/writable by root only
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done
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Lots of people connect video0 to video and bttv, but you might want
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your c-qcam to mean something more:
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ln -s video0 c-qcam # make /dev/c-qcam a working file
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ln -s c-qcam video # make /dev/c-qcam your default video source
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But these are conveniences. The important part is to make the proper
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special character files with the right major and minor numbers. All
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of the special device files are listed in ../devices.txt. If you
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would like the c-qcam readable by non-root users, you will need to
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change the permissions.
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3.0 Troubleshooting
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If the sample program below, v4lgrab, gives you output then
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everything is working.
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v4lgrab | wc # should give you a count of characters
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Otherwise, you have some problem.
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The c-qcam is IEEE1284 compatible, so if you are using the proc file
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system (CONFIG_PROC_FS), the parallel printer support
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(CONFIG_PRINTER), the IEEE 1284 system,(CONFIG_PRINTER_READBACK), you
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should be able to read some identification from your quickcam with
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modprobe -v parport
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modprobe -v parport_probe
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cat /proc/parport/PORTNUMBER/autoprobe
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Returns:
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CLASS:MEDIA;
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MODEL:Color QuickCam 2.0;
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MANUFACTURER:Connectix;
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A good response to this indicates that your color quickcam is alive
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and well. A common problem is that the current driver does not
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reliably detect a c-qcam, even though one is attached. In this case,
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modprobe -v c-qcam
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or
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insmod -v c-qcam
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Returns a message saying "Device or resource busy" Development is
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currently underway, but a workaround is to patch the module to skip
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the detection code and attach to a defined port. Check the
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video4linux mailing list and archive for more current information.
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3.1 Checklist:
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Can you get an image?
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v4lgrab >qcam.ppm ; wc qcam.ppm ; xv qcam.ppm
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Is a working c-qcam connected to the port?
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grep ^ /proc/parport/?/autoprobe
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Do the /dev/video* files exist?
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ls -lad /dev/video
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Is the c-qcam module loaded?
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modprobe -v c-qcam ; lsmod
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Does the camera work with alternate programs? cqcam, etc?
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4.0 Future Work / current workarounds
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It is hoped that this section will soon become obsolete, but if it
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isn't, you might try patching the c-qcam module to add a parport=xxx
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option as in the bw-qcam module so you can specify the parallel port:
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insmod -v c-qcam parport=0
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And bypass the detection code, see ../../drivers/char/c-qcam.c and
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look for the 'qc_detect' code and call.
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Note that there is work in progress to change the video4linux API,
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this work is documented at the video4linux2 site listed below.
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9.0 --- A sample program using v4lgrabber,
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v4lgrab is a simple image grabber that will copy a frame from the
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first video device, /dev/video0 to standard output in portable pixmap
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format (.ppm) To produce .jpg output, you can use it like this:
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'v4lgrab | convert - c-qcam.jpg'
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10.0 --- Other Information
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Use the ../../Maintainers file, particularly the VIDEO FOR LINUX and PARALLEL
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PORT SUPPORT sections
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The video4linux page:
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http://linuxtv.org
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The V4L2 API spec:
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http://v4l2spec.bytesex.org/
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Some web pages about the quickcams:
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http://www.pingouin-land.com/howto/QuickCam-HOWTO.html
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http://www.crynwr.com/qcpc/ QuickCam Third-Party Drivers
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http://www.crynwr.com/qcpc/re.html Some Reverse Engineering
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http://www.wirelesscouch.net/software/gqcam/ v4l client
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http://phobos.illtel.denver.co.us/pub/qcread/ doesn't use v4l
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ftp://ftp.cs.unm.edu/pub/chris/quickcam/ Has lots of drivers
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http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reynolds/quickcam/ Has lots of information
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