RVDowning

Well, had a crash this morning on 2.6.17-6 after bringing up my webcams. So, I removed dkms-spca and have been fine since. Can't get webcams to work on 2.6.17-11 without it though. So I guess I am just stuck on this kernel. The problem could also be that I just don't know enough about what I'm doing. I didn't deinstall anything before doing the urpmi dkms-spca. Not sure what I should have done. I may have had two "copies" of the spca5xx driver loaded and had a conflict there. UPDATE: From info in a chat group I tried dkms-gspcav1. It was available on contrib backports. It seems to be working I haven't crashed yet. Will update again if I experience any problems.

On the link you provided, I see that the suggested module for Mandriva was dmks-spca, which is what I installed via urpmi yesteray. However, I also notice that the link to that module is broken. Guess I'll just stay with what I have since 2.6.17-6 seems totally stable.

I had been using the spca5xx module from: gspcav1-20060925.tar.gz that I had downloaded, instead of the dkms-spca module in 2.6.17-6 and this has been working fine. I did a urpmi of dkms-spca on 2.6.17-11, rebooted, and that seemed to do the trick -- at least I think so. However, I'm getting sysem freezes using 2.6.17-11. Don't know whether these freezes are related to web cam stuff or this module or what. I end up having to reboot to clear the freeze. This happened several times. So, I went back to 2.6.17-6. I also installed the dkms-spca module in 2.6.17-6. I'm confused though. Since I had originally installed the spca module from the tar.gz file, and have also done the install of the dkms item, I'm not really sure what I'm using or how to find out. Also not sure how to find out anything further about my 2.6.17-11 freezes. By the way, in lsmod, I see gspca listed. Not sure whethere that was there before I installed dmks-spca or not. I might have just missed it.

Thanks for the suggestions. By the time I got around to try the suggestions, 2.6.17-11 was available, so tried the same thing. Same problem. jareez: didn't see spca5xx listed in lsmod. joaopa: tried the make menuconfig, but that gives me a Linux Kernel Configuration screen, and am not sure what to do at this point. Guess I'll go back to previous kernel again. sigh..... :(

Not sure what you mean by "which modules do your webcams use?" Do you mean the driver? (Driver: spca5xx) If not, how do I find out? Does the driver have to be reinstalled after upgrading the kernel? (I didn't do that for 2.6.17-6) Presumably the same modules would be used on 2.6.17-8 that were used on 2.6.17-6. The upgrade from -5 to -6 worked, but not the one to -8.

Upgraded kernel yesterday from 2.6.17-5 to 2.6.17-6 and then realized that 2.6.17-8 was the latest, so installed that. My three usb webcams work fine in -5 and -6, but in -8 the files /dev/video0, /dev/video1 and /dev/video2 do not get created. Had to revert back to 2.6.17-6. The usb entries in dmesg look fine to me, (at least as far as I can realize what I am looking at). Any ideas?

I got this working last summer using the SPCA drivers. You guys are responding to a real old message.

Maybe my memory was just prettier than yours. :P

top gives me: Mem: 2075828k total Again, this is just with the stock kernel (32 bit) for Mandriva 2007.

Won't recognize 2 gig?????? I think mine does. At least it looks like it does from looking at the system monitor. Is there some formal way for me to check? I'm using 2007 with its default kernel.

If it is just an upgrade I would be very interested. But if I have to do a total reinstall I will probably wait. It just takes too much time to reinstall everything after a fresh install.

Resolved. I forgot that this was not a dkms enabled driver (gspca) so I had to compile it and modprobe it.

On Mandriva 2007, I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.17-6mdk and afterwards, when I go to bring up my usb webcams, I get the errors such as it can't find directory /dev/video1, etc. Is there something I am supposed to do after a kernel upgrade (that I didn't need to do with Mandriva 2006)? I was specifically using camE, for which I did a urpme followed by a urpmi of it, and it made no difference. The system is fully uptodate with all updates.

Well actually, the spelling didn't matter to me. I just highlighted it in konqueror and told it to open in kwrite, so I never had to spell it. Also, the rest of the grub works fine. Yes to both your questions. Entire grub.lst is below. timeout 10 color 2 shade 1 viewport 3 2 77 22 splashimage (hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz default 0 title linux-2007 ***** Primary ***** kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-5mdv root=/dev/hda5 resume=/dev/hda1 splash=verbose vga=794 initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img title linux-nonfb kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 resume=/dev/hda1 splash=verbose vga=794 initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img title failsafe kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 failsafe resume=/dev/hda1 initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img title linux-2007 ***** Secondary***** kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-5mdv root=/dev/hda6 resume=/dev/hda1 splash=verbose vga=794 initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd.img title linux-nonfb kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 resume=/dev/hda1 splash=verbose vga=794 initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd.img title failsafe kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 failsafe resume=/dev/hda1 initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd.img By the way, when I use mcc to indicate that I want Grub with a graphical menu, and it saves to the mbr, when I afterwards look at menu.lst, the graphical information is missing. It seems that mcc is not saving it right. So, I tried to edit the file directly. But, how do I load it into the mbr without using mcc?

I've lost the GRUB graphical menu. mcc says "GRUB with graphical menu" and menu.1st shows viewport, splashimage, color and shade -- it seems ok. What am I missing? Any ideas? Front part of menu.1st is as follows: timeout 10 color 2 shade 1 viewport 3 2 77 22 splashimage (hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz default 0

I used the link provided by tyme in this thread, which was a link to rpms on cooker. I downloaded the three rpms and did the usual "urpmi *.rpm" to install. All seemed to go well. Just had a system freeze upon rebooting. I should mention that I'm using: nVidia GeForce 6600 GT (AGP)

If I ever install another driver from cooker, just shoot me -- I'll deserve it. After installing I rebooted the system. I got a black screen with the cursor in the upper left corner. System was dead. Luckily I had taken a backup before I did it. Am still trying to restore my system back to normal. I'll stay with the driver I have.

Which would be considered the preferred way to go? -- to use the driver directly from nvidia, or the dkms methodology that you mention above? Is there any performance difference?

Does this mean that I won't be using a dkms nvidia driver from Mandriva any more? That is the only way I've ever used an nvidia driver.

I gave it an "ok at best". I thought it was unforgivable for Mandriva to include a development version of gnumeric. Some of the functions that I use didn't work with the included version, and there is no newer version yet available via urpmi. I also had a problem with the taskbar, which I had set up to disappear when the cursor moved off of it and to reappear when the cursor was brought to the bottom of the screen. Well, it doesn't disappear unless I move the cursor off the screen to the left, right or top edges. Really annoying. I actually had to change the way I used it so that it was always there, costing me 3/4 inch screen real estate. Also, my webcams which used spca5xx drivers (open source) don't work any more. Guess this isn't mandriva's problem but it made made have to back off and go back to 2006. I now have 2006 and 2007 set up as dual boot, but I actually spend all of my time in 2006.

I was also using 2.6.17-5mdv and lm-sensors and had no problem. I just installed the rpms for lm-sensors and gkrellm using urpmi and then ran sensors-detect. The only problem I had was the flooding into my logs of temperature out of range errors. I had to go into the config file and turn off those messages. I had to go back to Mandriva 2006 because my web cams don't work with 2007. So, I have 2006 and 2007 set up as dual boot. I'm using lm-sensors with gkrellm on both systems without any problem.

Personally, I didn't find anything of interest in Mandriva 2007 except some eye candy (3d) and a faster boot time, and the eye candy doesn't interest me. I don't think it was worth the time to upgrade. I'll wait for the driver to be fixed or 2008 to come out, which ever occurs first.

From speaking with someone in the #mandriva chat room, it seems that the problem is that the driver spca5xx doesn't work with the current kernel, and the replacement driver gspcav1 which is supposed to work, doesn't. Seems there is nothing that can be done at the moment, except to stay on 2006.

I am getting a constant system freeze after a few minutes of running camE (webcam snapshot and ftp) or palantir (webcam server) on Mandriva 2007. I have three webcams, usb 2.0, and I can freeze the system after a few minutes with just using one of them with camE. On Mandriva 2006, I can have all three webcams up and running with three copies of camE all day with no problems. Likewise palantir also freezes the system after it has been up a while. These are Logitech QuickCam Communicate STX cams using driver spca5xx. Video card is nVidia GeForce 6600 GT (AGP). Tried drivers 8762 and 8774. I've had to restore back to 2006. I'll have to stay there until this can be resolved. Any ideas?

Geez.... At this rate they'll eventually have most of the features that Opera has had for the last several years......