How to make Piranha 6.0 to work on Linux
If your "Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. ZC0303 WebCam" is not working on Linux, then read this ;)
There is a conflict with the old version of module. It recognizes the Piranha web cam however with the wrong module. So removing the wrong module lets the correct one to recognize the camera and make it work!
The old driver was showing this when 'dmesg' is called, however web cam was not working
[78983.564439] usb 1-1: ZC0301[P] Image Processor and Control Chip detected (vid/pid 0x0AC8:0x303B)
[78983.684101] usb 1-1: PB-0330 image sensor detected
[78984.383977] usb 1-1: Initialization succeeded
[78984.384052] usb 1-1: V4L2 device registered as /dev/video0
$ camorama
..Could not found /dev/video0 :(
So remove the old module from kernel..
$ sudo modprobe -r zc0301
After the ZC0301 module is removed from the kernel, and the camera unplugged, then plugged. It started to work!
[88075.663459] usbcore: deregistering interface driver zc0301$ camorama
[88075.663539] usb 5-2: Disconnecting ZC0301[P] PC Camera...
[88075.663543] usb 5-2: V4L2 device /dev/video0 deregistered
[88086.697969] usb 5-2: USB disconnect, address 3
[88089.183332] usb 5-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
[88089.380328] usb 5-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[88089.383203] /build/buildd/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22-2.6.22/debian/build/build-generic/media/gspcav1/gspca_core.c: USB SPCA5XX camera found.(ZC3XX)
[88089.492264] zc0301: V4L2 driver for ZC0301[P] Image Processor and Control Chip v1:1.07
[88089.750150] usbcore: registered new interface driver zc0301
..YES!
1 Comments:
The additional step can be adding your account to the group of video. If the camera is detected by the Gpsca driver, but if you still cannot use it, its reason may be that you are not a member of video group.
Alter the /etc/group file and add yourself to this group..
video:x:44:phoad
Good luck.
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