cpia driver for microscope: any success?

[Cherry Withers]

My sincere thanks to Aaron for taking this on!!

I had much success with the Veho 004, but at now $99 a piece I can't afford
to buy more of them for my trip to the Philippines this June.
I have 2 of these Intel Play from 5 years ago that still work perfectly well
with Windows but hoping they get more use by kids in the Philippines.
They are also much cheaper (some going for $15 each on eBay).

Somebody forwarded this UI that might work if I had the modules set-up
(which I really don't have a clue how to do):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtx3/

Might not work with Sugar but it looks like it can work with GNOME?

Grateful,
Cherry

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Aaron Borden <adborden at live.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 18:15 -0500, Chris Ball wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 06 2011, Cherry Withers wrote:
> > > Hi Folks,
> > >
> > > I'm starting to figure out that because the Intel QX3 microscope has an
> > > CPiA chipset, it may not be supported by
> > > cheese (which takes V4L/V2L devices) but needs a special cpia driver
> that
> > > can be found in:
> > > http://webcam.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > This is outdated information (site last updated in 2003!).  The drivers
> > have been merged into the main Linux kernel now; it looks like you just
> > need to turn on CONFIG_USB_GSPCA_CPIA1=m and build gspca_cpia1.ko from
> > drivers/media/video/gspca/cpia1.c.
> >
> > Since our kernels already have CONFIG_USB_GSPCA=m, you can build this
> > module without having to recompile your current kernel.
>
> Thanks Chris,
>
> I'm helping Cherry, getting this driver compiled. She's using a 2.6.31
> kernel (the 10.1.3 build I think) which doesn't have the gspca_cpia1
> driver.
>
> I looked into back-porting the driver to 2.6.31, there's only a handful
> of compile errors but it still might be more work than it's worth.
>
> I did a quick trial with the v4l1 cpia driver and it works with
> gstreamer, so it's just a matter of getting cheese to detect it. My
> initial investigation leads me to believe that cheese uses HAL to detect
> v4l capable devices and the QX3 isn't showing up as v4l capable, so I'll
> look into this a bit more.
>
> Any other ideas are welcome :)
>
> -Aaron
>
>
>
>
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