On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 15:49 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > Bear with me for a minute, this leads up to specific questions... :) > > I'm running FC5 with kernel 2.6.18-1.2239.fc5 i686 and would like to get > a Creative Webcam Instant working. After much clicking around on the > web I've learned that some people have gotten this webcam to work with > kernel module spca5xx and that spca5xx has been replaced with gspca. > Drilling down the ATrpms website to http://atrpms.net/dist/fc5/gspca/ > I've come across a page of "gspcav1" rpms for kernel 2.6.18-1.2239 which > seem more or less the same. Does anyone have any insight into which of > these packages might work on my systen? Why are there so many gspcav1 > for the same kernel? I just used the basic tarball, compiled it, after making the config.h fix to the kernel, and fired up kopete and saw myself. A miracle. If you need more help, just email me offlist. Ric