FC3 to FC4 upgrade report

Gérard Milmeister gemi at bluewin.ch
Thu Jun 16 19:03:41 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 20:02 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Do, den 16.06.2005 schrieb Gérard Milmeister um 17:52:
> 
> > Here are a few of the issues I had upgrading from FC3 to FC4.
> > Comments are welcome.
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
> >  The pwc.ko module for Webcams is present but doesn't work. A
> >   device /dev/video1 is created but non-functional. Installing
> >   pwc-10.0.7a however does work.
> 
> > Gérard Milmeister

> but a result from a recent upstream kernel
> change regarding that module. See
> 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/137823/
> 
The old IP raising is ugly head again...
Does this mean the shipped pwc does only work with a few devices?
I have a Logitech Orbit/Sphere and it doesn't work at all.
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Gérard Milmeister
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