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

Rohan Kulkarni rohan.sjce at gmail.com
Sat Jul 5 15:32:05 UTC 2008


I installed kernel-devel and the finally installed the linux-uvc
driver :) but still the webcam is not working :(

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> 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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