Webcam with FC6

[Keith Powell]

On Friday 08 December 2006 6:47 pm, Mike Zingale wrote:
> Keith, I have, I believe, the same camera. You need to install the
> SPCA driver for it -- this is not part of the mainline kernel.  The
> following worked for me:
>
>
> wget
> http://drpixel.tuxfamily.org/fedora/drpixel-release-1-1.noarch.rpm
> rpm -Uvh drpixel-release-1-1.noarch.rpm
> yum install --enablerepo=drpixel kmod-gspca
>
> in aMSN, if you use a NAT/router, you need to open ports 6890-6900
> for the camera to work.  I believe I also had to do this in the
> fedora firewall.
>
> Mike
>

Mike.

Thank you very much for your reply.

Unfortunately, when I run: 
yum install --enablerepo=drpixel kmod-gspca

I get this error message:
Transaction Check Error:   package kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 is already 
installed
  file /boot/System.map-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 from install of 
kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 conflicts with file from package 
kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6
  file /boot/config-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 from install of 
kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 conflicts with file from package 
kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6
  file /boot/symvers-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6.gz from install of 
kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 conflicts with file from package 
kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6
  file /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 from install of 
kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 conflicts with file from package 
kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6

The camera still doesn't work (looking at the video set-up in both 
Kopete and Ekiga. No device found.)

Do I uninstall the older files which are causing the conflicts and 
then run 'yum install' again? I don't want to risk doing anything 
like that without knowing it's the correct thing to do! It is a bit 
peculiar, as the new files are the same number as the older ones.

Many thanks for your help, and sorry to trouble you again.

Cheers

Keith