Re: Webcam and FC6

On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 18:21 +0000, Keith Powell wrote:
On Sunday 31 December 2006 16:42, Gilboa Davara wrote:
On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 16:35 +0000, Keith Powell wrote:
Just before Christmas, I was trying to get my Logitech Quickcam
Chat working in FC6. In spite of much help, and spending days
trying the different suggestions both from here and elsewhere, I
couldn't get it to work. Then Christmas took priority and I had
to abandon it.

I've now been able to have another look at it.

I have the i686 version of the kernel, the i686 kernel-devel with
the i386 kernel headers. All for the '2798' kernel

Like Gilboa, on another thread, I downloaded the
gspcav1-20061216.tar.gz file from mxhaard.

But, when I try to compile gspca, I get the following error:


[root@localhost gspcav1-20061216]# make
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
SUBDIRS=/home/keith/gspcav1-20061216 CC=cc modules
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i686/scripts/gcc-version.sh:
line 11: cc: command not found
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i686/scripts/gcc-version.sh:
line 12: cc: command not found
make[1]: cc: Command not found
make[1]: Entering directory
`/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i686' CC [M]
/home/keith/gspcav1-20061216/gspca_core.o
/bin/sh: cc: command not found
make[2]: *** [/home/keith/gspcav1-20061216/gspca_core.o] Error
127 make[1]: *** [_module_/home/keith/gspcav1-20061216] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i686' make: *** [default]
Error 2
[root@localhost gspcav1-20061216]#

The gspcav1-20061216.tar.gz has worked with another distro, with
no errors.


You are missing the kernel development tools.
$ yum install kernel-devel gcc

- Gilboa

Gilboa.

Thank you *very* much for your help.

The web cam is now working in Kopete. Not tried it with other
programs.

There's just one thing, though.

In your instructions on the previous thread, you ended by doing two
modprobes to insert the modules. If I do a modprobe, I get the
message that the command 'modprobe' can't be found. Tried both as
root and as a user.

Thanks again for your help. I appreciate it.

Keith

modprobe is in /sbin, which is usually not accessible to average user.
So you have to become root (su -) in order to to run binaries from /sbin
Another way would be to set sudoers. It's far more elaborate but you
don't have to become root every time you try to perform a root action.
(this of course in case you are not root already).

HTH



Calin

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