Webcam with FC6

Michael Wiktowy michael.wiktowy at gmail.com
Thu Dec 14 06:23:06 UTC 2006


On 12/13/06, Mike Chalmers <mikechalmers70 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/13/06, Michael Wiktowy <michael.wiktowy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > There was another thread on this list related to webcams (or maybe it
> > was fedora-devel) that indicated that there was a problem where yum
> > was installing the kernel-devel package that mismatched the installed
> > kernels arch (i.e devel.i586 and a kernel.i386) that was causing this
> > kind of gspca build grief. That might also be something worth
> > investigating.
>
> Mike, is this what you are talking about,
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common , under Common Issues?

Yes ... Anaconda's fault ... not yum's ... that might be the problem
with compiling the kernel module for the cam. See the end of the
thread called "Webcam choice" in November on this list for specifics.

/Mike




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