> On 14/06/10 18:58, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>> >>> 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). > > AFAIK it's rolling development, so just grab the latest snapshot. At > present the v4l-dvb tree is largely maintained by Douglas Schilling > Landgraf and the gspca tree by Hans de Goede, both of Red Hat. I have absolutely no intention of taking the latest snapshot. Did you just skim over the last sentence I wrote, above? I don't need anything LATEST AND GREATEST, I just want something ->STABLE<- that will run the bloody old Labtech (Labtek?) cameras, and *not* spit out pointless error messages. By the way, what is "rolling development"? Does this mean that there are *no* releases, or version numbers? If so, how can I tell what was the last stable version, and what is where they started adding features for the next release? > > The main v4l-dvb tree is here - just grab the latest tarball and build > it. Here if you don't see it: > > http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/archive/tip.tar.bz2 When you say "latest", do you mean the last stable version, or what somebody checked in last night (or just before lunch today)? > > Development work on the gspca branch appears to happen here: > > http://linuxtv.org/hg/~hgoede/gspca/ > > before being merged into the main v4l-dvb tree. > >>> >>> 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*. >> > > Isn't it obvious from the package names? > > For example, kmod-video4linux-0.0-7.20100410.el5.elrepo is build from > the v4l-dvb source code snaphot dated 2010-04-10. So I just need that, and *not* the apps? I mean, gspca is a video driver that motion can use. mark