On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 18:51 -0800, Leslie Satenstein wrote: > I would like to know if someone can advise me how to install a webcam > under this application. The kernel and files are at the moment, > vanilla, in the sense of not having auxilliary modules installed. > > My webcam has the following 045e:00f7 as manuf and webcam id. (It's > Microsoft). > > I found the gspcav1-20071214 tar file with the drivers for the webcam, > but now I would appreciate some help in getting it working with pirut, > ekiga, skype, or amsn. > > Thanks and awaiting some feedback. Have you ever built code from a tarball before? It's not hard, but you do have to know some basics, to wit: 1. Make sure you have the kernel headers installed if you're building a driver via "yum install kernel-headers". 2. Copy the tarball to a working directory. 3. "cd" to that working directory. 4. Unpack the tarball. If it ends in just ".tar", then: $ tar xf name-of-file.tar If it ends in ".tar.gz" or ".tgz", then: $ tar xzf name-of-file.tar.gz (or .tgz) If it ends in ".bz2", then: $ tar xjf name-of-file.tar.bz2 This should create a subdirectory containing the tarball's contents. 5. "cd" to that subdirectory. 6. Configure the source. Most commonly, that's done via the command: $ ./configure 7. Build the driver: $ make 8. If the build is successful, install the driver: $ sudo make install (enter root's password here) 9. You should be able to "modprobe" the name of the driver (less the ".ko" bit): $ sudo modprobe name-of-driver 10. That's it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - You know the old saying--any technology sufficiently advanced is - - indistinguishable from a Perl script - - --Programming Perl, 2nd Edition - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
