/dev/video0

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Fri Nov 17 00:46:49 UTC 2006


Alain PORTAL writes:

> Le vendredi 17 novembre 2006 00:43, Sam Varshavchik a écrit :
> 
>> Looks like, at the bare minimum, you should install the "gspcav1" rpm, and
>> the correct "gspcav1-kmdl-<kver>" rpm, that exactly matches the kernel
>> version you're running.
> 
> rpms kernel version matches.
> 
> I send a mail to the gspca maintener who told me that this module isn't for my 
> cam and that I have to take the uvcvideo driver 
> (http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/)
> 
> Unfortunaly, after successful compile and install, when I want to load it :
> 
> [root at lns-bzn-22-82-249-91-178 ~]# modprobe uvcvideo
> FATAL: Error inserting uvcvideo 
> (/lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2239.fc5/usb/media/uvcvideo.ko): Unknown symbol in 
> module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> 
> and new in /var/log/messges
> 
> kernel: uvcvideo: disagrees about version of symbol video_devdata
> kernel: uvcvideo: Unknown symbol video_devdata
> kernel: uvcvideo: disagrees about version of symbol video_unregister_device
> kernel: uvcvideo: Unknown symbol video_unregister_device
> kernel: uvcvideo: disagrees about version of symbol video_device_alloc
> kernel: uvcvideo: Unknown symbol video_device_alloc
> kernel: uvcvideo: disagrees about version of symbol video_register_device
> kernel: uvcvideo: Unknown symbol video_register_device
> kernel: uvcvideo: disagrees about version of symbol video_device_release
> kernel: uvcvideo: Unknown symbol video_device_release

Looks like you compiled the kernel module against a version of the kernel 
that's different than the running kernel's version.

You need to be very careful when doing this, by hand.  You're much better 
off searching for a pre-built rpm that does this for you.

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