Webcam installation on Fedora 64bit version 8 F8 64bit
Rick Stevens
rstevens at internap.com
Tue Dec 18 17:35:50 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 18:51 -0800, Leslie Satenstein wrote:
> I would like to know if someone can advise me how to install a webcam
> under this application. The kernel and files are at the moment,
> vanilla, in the sense of not having auxilliary modules installed.
>
> My webcam has the following 045e:00f7 as manuf and webcam id. (It's
> Microsoft).
>
> I found the gspcav1-20071214 tar file with the drivers for the webcam,
> but now I would appreciate some help in getting it working with pirut,
> ekiga, skype, or amsn.
>
> Thanks and awaiting some feedback.
Have you ever built code from a tarball before? It's not hard, but you
do have to know some basics, to wit:
1. Make sure you have the kernel headers installed if you're building a
driver via "yum install kernel-headers".
2. Copy the tarball to a working directory.
3. "cd" to that working directory.
4. Unpack the tarball. If it ends in just ".tar", then:
$ tar xf name-of-file.tar
If it ends in ".tar.gz" or ".tgz", then:
$ tar xzf name-of-file.tar.gz (or .tgz)
If it ends in ".bz2", then:
$ tar xjf name-of-file.tar.bz2
This should create a subdirectory containing the tarball's contents.
5. "cd" to that subdirectory.
6. Configure the source. Most commonly, that's done via the command:
$ ./configure
7. Build the driver:
$ make
8. If the build is successful, install the driver:
$ sudo make install
(enter root's password here)
9. You should be able to "modprobe" the name of the driver (less the
".ko" bit):
$ sudo modprobe name-of-driver
10. That's it.
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