webcams, again

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Thu May 24 01:46:10 UTC 2007


On Wednesday  May 23 2007 3:31:40 pm Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote:

> When I've investigated in the past it always seems to come back to the
> gspcav driver?
>
> It will work on this computer if I boot XP, something that never happens
> but I know the hardware works.  It's mostly an annoyance, I have it and it
> should work.  I keep thinking well maybe with the next version of Fedora
> but it hasn't happened.
>
> I believe this is the camera and if I understand this list he says this is
> the driver? Do I have to also install spca561a?  This stuff is not very
> clear.
>
> http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html

You want either the gspca rpm or tarfile. The spca package is noted for older 
kernels. One reason I prefer the tarfile is that if it doesn't make, then I 
have problems somewhere else and it'll point them out during the build. Ric




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