webcams, again

[Bob Goodwin - W2BOD]

Scott van Looy wrote:
> Today Bob Goodwin - W2BOD did spake thusly:
>
>> Scott van Looy wrote:
>>> 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?
>>>
>> modprobe gspca
>> FATAL: Error inserting gspca 
>> (/lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6/updates/drivers/usb/media/gspca.ko): 
>> Invalid module format
>>
>> and in messages ;
>>
>> May 23 09:16:32 box6 kernel: Linux video capture interface: v2.00
>> May 23 09:16:32 box6 kernel: gspca: no version for "struct_module" 
>> found: kernel tainted.
>> May 23 09:16:32 box6 kernel: gspca: version magic '2.6.20-1.2948.fc6 
>> SMP mod_unload 686 4KSTACKS ' should be '2.6.20-1.2948.fc6 SMP 
>> mod_unload 586 4KSTACKS '
>
> This would imply that you're trying to load the wrong kernel module 
> for that kernel.
>
> You appear to be running an i586 kernel, which could possibly mean 
> that you've got bitten by the anaconda i586 kernel install bug.
>
> You can get a script to fix this:
> download it and execute it as root from
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=kernel-fix.sh 
>
>
> To do this, in your root shell do:
>
> wget 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=kernel-fix.sh
Nor will it work for me:   10:04:58 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
>
>
> (this was failing for me with 403 forbidden, but might work for you)
>
> Then do chmod 770 kernel-fix.sh
> then do ./kernel-fix.sh
>
Ok, I ran the first URL from Firefox and it appeared to work with a few 
cryptic [to me] error messages that I lost when it asked me to reboot 
the computer.

Now I have:  uname -a
Linux box6 2.6.20-1.2948.fc6 #1 SMP Fri Apr 27 18:53:15 EDT 2007 i686 
i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Is that the correct Kernel?

modprobe gspca
FATAL: Error inserting gspca 
(/lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6/updates/drivers/usb/media/gspca.ko): 
Invalid module format

And the following in messages after doing modprobe gspca:

May 23 10:29:06 box6 kernel: Linux video capture interface: v2.00
May 23 10:29:06 box6 kernel: gspca: no version for "struct_module" 
found: kernel tainted.
May 23 10:29:06 box6 kernel: gspca: version magic '2.6.20-1.2948.fc6 SMP 
mod_unload 686 4KSTACKS ' should be '2.6.20-1.2948.fc6 SMP mod_unload 
586 4KSTACKS '

I thank you for the assistance.

Bob Goodwin