Re: Webcam and FC6

[Gilboa Davara <gilboad gmail com>]

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.
> 
> Please can anyone help?
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Keith
> 

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

- Gilboa