webcams, again

[Bob Goodwin - W2BOD]

Scott van Looy wrote:
> Today Bob Goodwin - W2BOD did spake thusly:
>
>> 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.
>
> Should do.
> Open a terminal and do:
> su -
> tail -f /var/log/messages
>
> Then in another terminal do:
> modprobe gspca
>
> and see what happens in the first one...it should detect your webcam 
> and create /dev/video0 - if it still doesn't, paste the output to us 
> here?
>
modprobe gspca
FATAL: Error inserting gspca 
(/lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6/updates/drivers/usb/media/gspca.ko): 
Invalid module format

and in messages ;

May 23 09:16:32 box6 kernel: Linux video capture interface: v2.00
May 23 09:16:32 box6 kernel: gspca: no version for "struct_module" 
found: kernel tainted.
May 23 09:16:32 box6 kernel: gspca: version magic '2.6.20-1.2948.fc6 SMP 
mod_unload 686 4KSTACKS ' should be '2.6.20-1.2948.fc6 SMP mod_unload 
586 4KSTACKS '