webcams, again

Bob Goodwin - W2BOD bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Wed May 23 12:49:26 UTC 2007


Scott van Looy wrote:
> Today Bob Goodwin - W2BOD did spake thusly:
>
>> Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
>>> > Does anyone out there have the Logitech STX Communicate webcam 
>>> working
>>> > with FC6?  And, if so, what was required besides plugging it in?
>>> No. But  you should need gspcav1 kernel module:
>>>
>>> http://atrpms.net/dist/fc6/gspca/
>>>
>>> Install and load the module (or reboot).
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
>>> LCG - UFRJ 
>> How does one deal with this?
>>
>> camE
>> can't load font arial/8
>> can't load font arial/8
>> can't load offline image /home/gilbertt/.block.jpg, ignoring
>>
>
> ^^^ this is irrelevant, simply config issues with camE
>
>> open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
>
> ^^^ this would imply that either your camera isn't supported by the 
> kernel module or the module isn't loaded...or for some bizarre reason 
> it's on video1 or something.
>
> Can you verify that the kernel module is loaded? 
Should it show when I do lsmod?

That produces a long list but nothing I recognize as related to this.

BobG




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