Re: Webcam choice

Anne Wilson wrote:

On Wednesday 08 November 2006 15:59, Paul Howarth wrote:

Anne Wilson wrote:

On Wednesday 08 November 2006 13:07, Paul Howarth wrote:

Anne Wilson wrote:

This problem has come up in relation to a bunch of out-of-tree kernel
drivers since FC6 was released. The linux/config.h header file no longer
exists and is not needed. You should be able to just delete the source
line in the driver that references it (gspca_core.c line 36 I think).

OK - removed it, and make continued, apparently succeeding.  However,
attempting install gives me

install -c -m 0644 gspca.ko /lib/modules/`uname
-r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/ install: target
`/lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/kernel/drivers/usb/media/' is not a
directory: No such file or directory

Do I simply create this directory?

You could do, or you could install it into
/lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/extra/ or maybe
/lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/kernel/drivers/media/video/usbvideo/

I'm out of my depth, here, Paul.  Part of the makefile reads

MODULE_INSTALLDIR = /lib/modules/$(KERNEL_VERSION)/kernel/drivers/usb/media/

MODULE_INSTALLDIR2 = /lib/modules/$(KERNEL_VERSION)/kernel/drivers/media/video/

default:
	$(MAKE) -C $(KERNELDIR) SUBDIRS=$(PWD) CC=$(CC) modules

install:
	mkdir -p $(MODULE_INSTALLDIR)
	rm -f $(MODULE_INSTALLDIR)spca5xx.ko
	rm -f $(MODULE_INSTALLDIR2)gspca.ko
	install -c -m 0644 gspca.ko $(MODULE_INSTALLDIR)
	/sbin/depmod -ae

Should I edit the MODULE_INSTALLDIR to match the MODULE_INSTALLDIR2? I would have thought that they wouldn't have defined two separate ones if they could both go in the same one.

Sorry to sound naive - I am ;-)

Paul.