[CentOS] 5.5 & gspca

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

> On 06/11/2010 10:38 PM, JohnS wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 17:10 -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>>
>>> Kernel. gspcs is a module, used by the motion daemon.
>>
>> Quick Search found this for el5.  You could get the src rpm and rebuild
>> it for all machines.  Or test a binary out first with one.  No idea the
>> version that was compiled or against what just found it.
>> http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/gspca/
>>
>> You know 2007 is a good while ago and there are many compiler changes in
>> between the time.  I say it may be something getting introduced from the
>> current compiler methods that is not supported now.

Compiler changes shouldn't make a difference, and I haven't heard of any
major revision.

<side rant>"methods" - since it's C, I *assume* that what's meant are
function calls....</side rant>

I know it's old, and was surprised that it hadn't been updated since my
manager brought it down a few years ago. I didn't see anything mentioning
where else to go.
>
> The standalone gspca code is old and deprecated. It's now maintained as
> part of the Video4Linux v4l-dvb tree here:
>
> http://linuxtv.org/

Thanks. However, that's not an overly friendly site for non-project
developers - don't see any current tarballs, for poor, overworked systems
administrators to d/l and build. Do you know what I might need to be able
to run the motion daemon? All I've seen are vcs/mercurial, or git or
whatever repositories, and I do *not* see "version x.y.z stable", or
"current release". I know my manager's willing to let me look at smaller
stuff, but not to spend days on building and debugging (whether or not I'd
like to, I've got other stuff to do).
>
> Elrepo.org has a version built for el5 that supports many gspca based
> devices:
>
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-video4linux

Don't need new versions, our video cams are years old, and inexpensive. We
want stable. However, do you have a clue as to what the el repo package
was built from? I just checked a CentOS mirror, and couldn't find either
video4linux, or v4l*.

         mark