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ctarwater

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Registered: 2009-02-05

Posts: 300

[Request] - uvcvideo patch for flipped webcam image

I've recently purchased an Asus UL50vt which has more than a few issues under linux at the moment.

Someone in the Suse community posted a patch to fix the issue I have with my webcam images being upside down and I was hoping someone could help me rip apart the rpm and create a makepkg for it.

http://download.opensuse.org/repositori … .4.src.rpm

Thanks!

Last edited by ctarwater (2010-04-13 19:43:49)

ctarwater

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Registered: 2009-02-05

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Re: [Request] - uvcvideo patch for flipped webcam image

I'm deploying next week, any help with this would be appreciated.

tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: [Request] - uvcvideo patch for flipped webcam image

Use rpmextract or rpmunpack to extract the rpm and get the patch file. uvcvideo is a kernel module, so you will need to get hold of the current kernel's source, apply the patch, and then rebuild the module.

ctarwater

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Registered: 2009-02-05

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Re: [Request] - uvcvideo patch for flipped webcam image

Thanks.

I'd already used rpmectract but what it gives me is beyond me. 
I get the following files:
preamble
uvc_video.c.diff
uvcvideo-0.1.0.tar.bz2
uvcvideo.spec

I've downloaded the uvcvideo source code  and tried using these( http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org … p?t=838210 ) instructions as a base, but I get :

can't find file to patch at input line 3
Perhaps you should have used the -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- uvc_video.c    2009-07-31 23:38:01.000000000 -0500
|+++ uvc_video.c.orig    2010-01-05 12:17:38.568873000 -0600
--------------------------

The camera is a Suyin - 064e:a136.

Last edited by ctarwater (2010-04-15 20:22:31)

ctarwater

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Registered: 2009-02-05

Posts: 300

Re: [Request] - uvcvideo patch for flipped webcam image

I found a libv4l testing package here http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/7622.html with the fix I need to flip my camera but it only includes instructions for ubuntu and fedora...it's a small 2 step process and I would be extremely grateful if someone could translate it to Archese please.

EDIT
After reading around some more, I'm pretty sure that libv4l from "extra" is Hans'   

Starting a new thread in a different area of the forums.

Last edited by ctarwater (2010-04-15 20:25:39)