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

[Antonio Olivares]

--- 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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Regards,

Antonio