Comment 23 for bug 259371

Hi Michael Gorven, Stefan Zerkalica (I subscribed you to this wishlist/bug), deion, Ruben Romero and everybody else!

I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 (MAVERICK) 64 BIT (with kernel 2.6.35-31-generic # 63-Ubuntu now) and since more than 8 months I'm trying to get smartcam working. In the meantime I was able to build the smartcam kernel driver (with lots and lots of patching) and also loading it into the kernel but I can NOT COMPILE the SMARTCAM APPLICATION (see: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3463579&group_id=197856&atid=963142 ).

So I tried "smartcam_1.4.0-4_amd64.deb" from STEFAN Zerkalica's PPA ( https://launchpad.net/~zerkalica/+archive/smartcam ) and it doesn't complain during installation but trying to run the smartcam app fails with a crash (segmentation fault/SEGFAULT):

***
smartcam: registered DBUS service "org.gnome.smartcam"
Found smartcam device file: /dev/video1
smartcam: started comm thread
smartcam: port = 1
Speicherzugriffsfehler
***

Then I thought maybe it doesn't work with my self-built smartcam kernel driver but needs the corresponding smartcam driver (1.4.0-4) from the same ppa - but this package seems to be build against kernel 2.6.35-25-generic (and not 2.6.35-31, which is the current one for Maverick 64 bit). Of course I stopped there and did not install the older kernel.

The "Speicherzugriffsfehler" (segmentation fault) could be coming from a bug in the smartcam code that relates to "Bluetooth either not being available" (I don't have Bluetooth!), see patch http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2893361&group_id=197856&atid=963144
… or to the "Bluetooth device enumeration issue"/"bug in DynamicBtBind() causing always listen on port 1", see patch http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3096560&group_id=197856&atid=963144
… I don't know.

* Regarding the "Bluetooth not being available" issue, Michael Gorven (~mgorven) provided the before mentioned first patch, but he didn't package smartcam for Maverick 64 bit.
* Regarding the "bug in DynamicBtBind() causing always listen on port 1" issue, "leniviytorrent" provided the before mentioned second patch.
* Regarding the packaging for Maverick 64 bit, I think Stefan Zerkalica (~zerkalica) could do the trick!

Would you people be so kind to work together, if possible or STEFAN or ANYBODY, would you like to INCLUDE these PATCHES and build a working Ubuntu Maverick 64 bit PACKAGE against KERNEL 2.6.35-31-generic # 63-Ubuntu (and maybe even for newer Ubuntu releases, too)? Or what is the point I'm missing here?

Thank you very very much in advance,

Kind Regards,

Dennis (~thecondordb)

PS: In the end, I'd like to get SmartCam working for 3rd party programs like Skype, Cheese etc. on Maverick 64 bit, fetching the video stream by WiFi from my Motorola Milestone with Android 2.2.1, where the smartcam app (.apk from Android Market) already work flawlessly - but streams only to my web browser at the moment.

PPS: The package description as well as the ReadMe.txt of SmartCam could be updated to mention Android and WiFi etc, too, and not only Symbian and Bluetooth, am I correct?

PPPS: Please excuse me writing partially in caps - I did this for visibility purposes only - no offense - no shouting :)