Microsoft LifeCam VX-1000 Support kldload gspca (gspca.ko: No such file or directory)

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Fri May 30 16:26:32 UTC 2008


On Thursday 29 May 2008 03:31:39 pm Derek Graham wrote:
> on Tuesday 27 May 2008Tuesday 27 May 2008 Dean Hamstead Dean Hamstead 
<dean at fragfest.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > 260 webcams supported and counting.
> >
> > http://mxhaard.free.fr/index.html
> >
> > not sure if you can launch from there to find freebsd support
> >
> > Dean
> >
> > Derek Graham wrote:
> > > I got suckered into grabbing this cheap webcam and now that I am back in
> > > a non-windows environment I am wondering if there is any hope for 
drivers
> > > for a MS product? :p  Any advice on a webcam that wont give me too much
> > > grief and not cost too much either? Also I wanted to see on external usb
> > > dvd burners i saw a LG External USB DVD Writer and a HP External USB DVD
> > > Writer. What would you guys recommend for that?
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> Ok thanks I tried it but got these errors:
> Mulder# kldstat
> Id Refs Address    Size     Name
>  1   25 0xc0400000 64bf3c   kernel
>  2    1 0xc0a4c000 85e4     linprocfs.ko
>  3    6 0xc0a55000 29868    linux.ko
>  4    1 0xc0a7f000 8a4c     snd_es137x.ko
>  5    1 0xc0a88000 80dcf8   nvidia.ko
>  6    1 0xc1296000 4cb0     atapicam.ko
>  8    1 0xc133d000 6a2b4    acpi.ko
>  9    1 0xc4898000 e000     fuse.ko
> 10    1 0xc4b50000 9000     vmmon_up.ko
> 11    1 0xc4b59000 2000     vmnet.ko
> 12    1 0xc4b5b000 5000     if_tap.ko
> 13    1 0xc4b69000 2000     rtc.ko
> 
> Mulder# kldxref -v /boot/modules/
> /boot/modules/nvidia.ko
> kldxref: /boot/modules/nvidia.ko: 82017 REL entries
> /boot/modules/gspca.ko
> kldxref: /boot/modules/gspca.ko: 3828 REL entries
> /boot/modules/pwc.ko
> kldxref: /boot/modules/pwc.ko: 388 REL entries
> /boot/modules/lhint.eyS8fW
> kldxref: elf_open(/boot/modules/lhint.eyS8fW): Inappropriate file type or 
format
> 
> Mulder# kldload /boot/modules/gspca.ko 
> kldload: can't load /boot/modules/gspca.ko: No such file or directory
> Mulder# kldload gspca
> kldload: can't load gspca: No such file or directory
> Mulder# kldload gspca.ko
> kldload: can't load gspca.ko: No such file or directory

Check dmesg, you may be missing some symbol (some other needed module isn't 
loaded?) and in that case the error will be in the the message buffer.

-- 
John Baldwin


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