Cant use Crystal Eye webcam on my Acer Laptop with Fedora 9

[Antonio M]

2008/7/5 Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com>:
> --- On Sat, 7/5/08, Rohan Kulkarni <rohan.sjce at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Rohan Kulkarni <rohan.sjce at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Cant use Crystal Eye webcam on my Acer Laptop with Fedora 9
>> To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>> Date: Saturday, July 5, 2008, 5:40 AM
>> using this link : http://www.fishpool.org/tag/Acer I learnt
>> that I
>> need to install linux-uvc driver. I downloaded the driver
>> by :
>>
>> svn checkout svn://svn.berlios.de/linux-uvc/linux-uvc/trunk
>>
>> However, make gives the error :
>>
>> [root at rohan trunk]# make
>> Building USB Video Class driver...
>> make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.25.9-76.fc9.i686/build: No such
>> file or
>> directory.  Stop.
>> make: *** [uvcvideo] Error 2
> # yum install kernel-devel
>
> should get you past this one.
>>
>> I checked the directory /lib/modules/2.6.25.9-76.fc9.i686/.
>> There is a
>> file build which is a symbolic link to
>>
>> build -> ../../../usr/src/kernels/2.6.25.9-76.fc9.i686
>>
>> How do I install this driver?
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Anne Wilson
>> <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > On Saturday 05 July 2008 12:44:29 Rohan Kulkarni
>> wrote:
>> >> Yes....It installed cleanly without any errors.
>> But luvcview does not
>> >> start. It gives this error :
>> >
>> > While the link I gave you was an outline of how to set
>> it up, there's a much
>> > better one (just found it now we know about uvcview)
>> >
>> >
>> http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/howto-logitech-quickcam-pro-9000-with-fedora-8/
>> >
>> > It may be that something is done differently in the
>> ubuntu installation than
>> > in the fedora one.  This should give you more specific
>> instructions.
>> >
>> > Anne
>> >
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>
> Antonio
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is this connected to this bug:
Bugzilla Bug 452019: UVCvideo webcam (eeepc) not probed with last
rawhide kernel from koji?????

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Antonio Montagnani
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