Webcam driver

[Mike McCarty]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 08 February 2007 12:12, Keith Powell wrote:
> 
>>I'm investigating my aMSN video problems.
>>
>>At the moment, I have the MXhaard driver installed which I downloaded
>>and installed as a tarball.
> 
> 
> Unless there is a 'make uninstall' option in the Makefile, you will have 
> to run it down, file by file and nuke it yourself.  About the only way I 

I have found that Makefiles with an "uninstall" target do not
necessarily actually find every file.

[snip]

> This is where the utility 'checkinstall' is worth its weight in bottled 
> beer or sliced bread, experienced folks can use it to make an rpm that 

I have tried "checkinstall" exactly three times, and had exactly
three failures.

> can then be installed with the usual rpm command, or uninstalled with the 
> usual rpm -e command.  But it currently has a bit of a bug and requires 
> you edit out of its include list, a rather large group of system files it 
> wants to include.  A fix for that is expected in about a week.  In the 

I was getting segmentation violations and core dumps...

> meantime, run it with this syntax: "checkinstall -R --inspect" which will 

...when I used the option you mention.

> give you a chance to clean up its act.
> 
> Humm, that in fact, IF you do the --inspect editing (that's vi when you're 
> doing that) correctly, you may be able to generate an rpm, install it, 
> and then remove it.  But that's not a particularly well tested at my 
> place function either, so I just toss it out as an idea to be explored.

Not my experience.

YMMV

Mike
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