Webcam HP dv9000 & Aveo webcam

[garby]

Hi, I have been experimenting with Salix 13 since it's early release, but there are a few things that I could never make work in hp dv900 Notebook PC with Ricoh webcam:

1) I upgraded from 13 to 13.1 as stated in the wiki and finally the keyboard stopped working. So I reinstalled 13.1 again.

1a) slapt-src -i <package_name> gives a errors all the time, no matter which package I try to build with the script (tried to build chromium and i3)

2) The webcam with ( Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05ca:1870 Ricoh Co., Ltd Webcam 1000) does not seem to work no matter what I do.

3) Using gnash as replacement of adobe flash (buggy) .in 64-bit salix consumes hell lot of processor power (44%) of two cpus and hangs on times and midori is still very unstable.

Any inputs to solve the latter two problems above shall be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

However, Salix rocks. (

[Akuna]

1a) slapt-src -i <package_name> gives a errors all the time, no matter which package I try to build with the script (tried to build chromium and i3)

Wild guess, did you update the local cache of remote slackbuilds first?

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slapt-src -u

What is the error message exactly?

[garby]

Yes, i also did slapt-src --clean and then slapt-src -u and again I get the same problem. Also the chromium-browser has dependency like libevent and yasm, i installed them manually, too before executing slapt-src -i chromium- same with slapt-src -i i3

Exception: Call to 'pkg-config --cflags nss' returned exit status 1. while loading dependencies of base/base.gyp while loading dependencies of app/app.gyp while loading dependencies of build/all.gyp while trying to load build/all.gyp
fakeroot -- sh chromium.SlackBuild Failed

[garby]

Error while compiling i3

In file included from src/commands.c:36:
include/ipc.h:15:16: error: ev.h: No such file or directory
In file included from src/commands.c:36:
include/ipc.h:54: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘struct’
make: *** [src/commands.o] Error 1
fakeroot -- sh i3.SlackBuild Failed

[garby]

Error while trying to compile a dependency for i3 after uninstalling libevent:

Fetching README...Done
Fetching libev.SlackBuild...Done
Fetching libev.info...Done
Fetching slack-desc...Done
Fetching http://dist.schmorp.de/libev/libev-3.9.tar.gz...Failed

And I have to break the errors down to several posts because i was not allowed to post the URL (which is included in the above error message) unless I have 3 posts in this forum. hmmmmmm.....

[Akuna]

Sorry about the url posting... We had much problem with spam bots.

[gapan]

Error while trying to compile a dependency for i3 after uninstalling libevent:

Fetching README...Done
Fetching libev.SlackBuild...Done
Fetching libev.info...Done
Fetching slack-desc...Done
Fetching http://dist.schmorp.de/libev/libev-3.9.tar.gz...Failed

And I have to break the errors down to several posts because i was not allowed to post the URL (which is included in the above error message) unless I have 3 posts in this forum. hmmmmmm.....

That's because that certain version has disappeared from that URL while it was supposed to be there. Look for yourself: http://dist.schmorp.de/libev
It has been moved to the Attic directory in there. What you can do is (as root):

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cd /usr/src/slapt-src/libraries/libev
wget http://dist.schmorp.de/libev/Attic/libev-3.9.tar.gz
./libev.SlackBuild

and a package will be created (probably in your /tmp). Best thing to do would be to inform the maintainer of the SlackBuild about this URL change, so that the SlackBuild will be updated.

[garby]

Thank you, Gapan and Akuna.

I did manage to install i3 (http://www.salixos.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 19&p=12303).

But the webcam and flash woes continues

And chromium package here works wonder http://www.salixos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6212#p6212 Thanks, christian!

[gapan]

But the webcam and flash woes continues

You don't say what you tried so far for the webcam.

As for gnash, it's the only supported way of viewing flash in 64bits. You could use the 64bit prerelease version from adobe, if you look in the thread about flash and 64bits in the announcement section you'll find a package. It works fine as far as I can see, but being a prerelease, it's not really certain that it doesn't include known security holes or other bugs.

[garby]

For webcam, I first installed luvcview and guvcview using slapt-get and both could not detect webcam.

Then I searched the net and landed at http://www.arakhne.org/ricoh/

I checked whether my webcam is supported at http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids and it says it does. Also stated here at the end (https://bitbucket.org/ahixon/r5u87x/src ... matrix.txt)

Then I visited https://bitbucket.org/ahixon/r5u87x

Using mercurial:

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hg clone https://bitbucket.org/ahixon/r5u87x
cd r5u87x
make
make install
r5u87x-loader --reload

Everything went well till this point.

But when I executed the last command: I got the following again.

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#r5u87x-loader --reload
r5u87x firmware loader v0.2

Searching for device...

Error: Failed to find any supported webcams.
root[r5u87x]# luvcview
luvcview 0.2.6

SDL information:
  Video driver: x11
  A window manager is available
Device information:
  Device path:  /dev/video0
ERROR opening V4L interface: No such file or directory