webcams, again

[Scott van Looy]

Today Bob Goodwin - W2BOD did spake thusly:

> Scott van Looy wrote:
>> Today Bob Goodwin - W2BOD did spake thusly:
>> 
>>> Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
>>>> > Does anyone out there have the Logitech STX Communicate webcam working
>>>> > with FC6?  And, if so, what was required besides plugging it in?
>>>> No. But  you should need gspcav1 kernel module:
>>>> 
>>>> http://atrpms.net/dist/fc6/gspca/
>>>> 
>>>> Install and load the module (or reboot).
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
>>>> LCG - UFRJ 
>>> How does one deal with this?
>>> 
>>> camE
>>> can't load font arial/8
>>> can't load font arial/8
>>> can't load offline image /home/gilbertt/.block.jpg, ignoring
>>> 
>> 
>> ^^^ this is irrelevant, simply config issues with camE
>> 
>>> open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
>> 
>> ^^^ this would imply that either your camera isn't supported by the kernel 
>> module or the module isn't loaded...or for some bizarre reason it's on 
>> video1 or something.
>> 
>> Can you verify that the kernel module is loaded? 
> Should it show when I do lsmod?
>
> That produces a long list but nothing I recognize as related to this.

Should do.
Open a terminal and do:
su -
tail -f /var/log/messages

Then in another terminal do:
modprobe gspca

and see what happens in the first one...it should detect your webcam and 
create /dev/video0 - if it still doesn't, paste the output to us here?

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