gspcav1 driver problems

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 14 March 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > A few days ago a kernel update took out the gspcav1 driver and the
> > accompanying kmdl package.  At present the atrpms version can't be
> > installed:
> >
> > Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 is needed by
> > package gspcav1-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6
> >
> > Is a build for 2.6.19 kernels in the pipeline, or should I build from
> > source?
>
> You could possibly use the DKMS module from freshrpms.net and avoid this
> issue since DKMS auto builds against the new kernel on bootup. On the
> other hand DKMS would require compiler and related tools to be installed
> on your system.
>
That's not a problem - I've compiled other packages.  I don't understand, 
though.  I thought dkms and kmdl were supposed to do much the same thing?  
What exactly are they meant to do?  and how are they used?  Do I, for 
instance, need gspcav1 and dkms-gspca, or is the second one a combination of 
the two?  I don't see gspcav1 on the freshmeat list.  Previously I was using 
gspcav1 and the accompanying kmdl from atrpms.

Anne