Webcam with FC6

[Keith Powell]

On Wednesday 13 December 2006 2:49 am, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 10:41 +0000, Keith Powell wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 December 2006 7:09 am, Ric Moore wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 10:52 +0000, Keith Powell wrote:
> > > > I did the kmod-gspca as you suggested, but there is no
> > > > difference. The web cam still isn't found. If it's of any
> > > > importance, there are no 'video' folder or files in /dev.
> > > >
>
> Well, I didn't use the rpms to get mine working. I just grabbed the
> gspca tarball, compiled it, it did the depmod stuff automatically
> at the end of the compile, really slick!, then I fired up kopete
> (installed with KDE) and opened it's config / video and there I was
> looking back at myself. That's all it took. So, if you can recall
> all the rpms you installed and can erase them, grab the tarball and
> compile it. If you upgrade your kernel, you'll have to re make the
> package again. Ric

Thank you for the suggestion, Ric.

I'll do another fresh install on my spare hard drive and compile the 
gspca tarball.  

Here's hoping!

Cheers

Keith