Installing and Testing on Debian Lenny

Based on http://nuigroup.com/forums/viewthread/4079/

Install the linux 2.6.30 image and headers:

  1. sudo aptitude install linux-image-2.6.30-bpo.1-686 linux-headers-2.6.30-bpo.1-686

Install the gspca driver:

  1. sudo aptitude install mercurial
  2. hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/~jfrancois/gspca/
  3. cd gspca
  4. make
  5. make install

To test:

  1. mplayer -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video1 tv://

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