Webcam choice

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 01:35:12PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 13 November 2006 13:27, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Sunday 12 November 2006 20:26, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > > There is a mismatch between i686 and i586, which looks like a known
> > > bug of anaconda:
> > >
> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common
> > >
> > > Fix it with installing the i686 kernel (replacing the wrong i586 one):
> > >
> > > rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --replacepkgs kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686.rpm
> >
> > Hi, Axel.  I thought I had sorted the mismatch problem by installing
> > kernel-devel for the i586 - how wrong can you be :-)
> >
> > OK - I did as you said, and I'm pleased to report that the gspcav1 driver
> > is now working.  My new webcam is found and used by ekiga.
> >
> > For the sake of the archives, the PCLine PCL-100K webcam is reported
> > as 'Pixart PAC207-BCA'.
> >
> One last question - is this kernel-version-dependent?


Yes, kernel modules usually have to be rebuilt for each new kernel
package, especially for Fedora or self compiled kernels (RHEL tried to
keep the kernel abi stable).

There is a yum plugin called yum-plugin-kmdl that automatically takes
care of that during yum update or yum install kernel-1.2.3. If that
doesn't work or you are using smart/apt etc. you need to use somthing
like

smart install foo-kmdl-`uname -r`

Where foo is the name of the kernel module (here gspcav1) and uname -r
returns the kernel version/release of the currently running
kernel. Instead of `uname -r` you can use a kernel version/release of
any kernel of course, both older ones and ones to be installed. But
the yum kmdl plugin is much easier :)
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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