Webcam with FC6

[James Wilkinson]

Keith Powell wrote:
> Wondering if that was the problem, I did a fresh installation on my 
> spare hard drive, specifying 'linux 686' at the start of the install. 
> I now have i686 for both the kernel and the kernel-devel, but still 
> i386 for the headers.
> 
> I can't find any i686 headers to install, but I thought that they were 
> part of the devel package? If so, surely they should be i686?

That's normal. I'm not sure if the kernel-headers package contains *any*
CPU instructions -- they certainly don't need a particular processor to
work, so are considered i386.

> I have worked through your suggestions again, but still nothing. There 
> is no /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/build directory.

It shouldn't be a directory, it should be a symbolic link ("symlink"),
pointing somewhere like /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i386/ -- use
ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/
to check. It may be a "dangling symlink" -- that directory may not
exist.

If so, try running 
yum install /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i386
which should find and install the correct package

Hope this helps,

James.

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