please help ..The New DDE_USB is giving compilation errors...

[tapas kundu]

Hi,
     Could you please tell us how can I easily port a linux usb webcam
driver . Please know that I am a beginner . Please explain procedure
to me..

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:30 PM, tapas kundu <tapaskundu1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks for your help. Usb mouse is working now!! ..  I have gone
> throush USB CAM folder. Could you please tell me which file contains
> usb driver for your CPIA webcam. I have seen 1 folder named "contrib"
> under usbcam directory. I think that it  contains lots of linux usb
> webcam drivers under directory
> "l4/pkg/usb/examples/usbcam/contrib/linux/drivers/media/video" .
>
> I didn't understand make files in every directory. Could you please
> explain compilation procedure without using make files. What is the
> use of contrib directory under usbcam folder? Please let us know which
> files are responisble for usb webcam device driver function.
>
> I am a beginner . Please help me.
>
> Thanks
> Tapas
>
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Dirk Vogt <dvogt at os.inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> 1) For usb camera a dope has started and a small menu has came showing
>>> "usbcam" and "exit". But it is not showing anything when I am clicking
>>> on usbcam.
>>
>> That's the normal behavior of usbcam, when it does not find a usbcam.
>>
>> However you should see in the debugging console that usbcore and have
>> usbcam are initialized.
>>
>> When usbcam recognizes a new cam, a new button video0 will appear. By
>> clicking this button usbcam will start the video capture.
>>
>>
>>> 2) For usbhid , we have connected a usb mouse . But it was not
>>> working. Here is the menu.lst , I have used for usb mouse.
>>
>> It seems you forgot to put usbcore into your menu.lst.  Remember, DDEUSB
>> uses a client/server approach to offer USB functionality.  The usbcore
>> is the only one to touch the host-controller hardware and thus needed
>> for all other USB drivers.
>>
>>
>>> Please know that we have a plan to add support for new webcams .
>>> Please let us know following information :
>>>
>>> 1) Please provide us the menu.lst which you have used for usbcam and usbhid.
>>
>> They do not differ much from yours.
>>
>>
>>> 2) I have found following files under directory
>>> "/home/tapas/10AprilUserbuild/source/pkg/usb/examples/usbcam/src"
>>> main.c , support.c , usbcam.c  and libv4lconvert (directory)
>>
>> Actually usbcam.c is just containing the gui and the v4l and v4l2
>> capturing code. The first should be documented somewhere in the dope
>> package and for the second there is plenty of documentation including
>> small examples spread all over the world wide web.
>>
>> the libv4lconvert was taken from libv4l [1] and was needed to convert
>> the data from the video device from e.g. jpeg to the vscreen's pixel
>> format.  Further, support.c implements some functions the were needed by
>> linux kernel part of V4L.
>>
>> If you have a look at the makefile, you can probably see how to add
>> support for new usbcams.
>>
>> Good luck,
>> Dirk.
>>
>>
>> [1]  http://freshmeat.net/projects/libv4l
>>
>>
>>
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