webcams, again

[Scott van Looy]

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

(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

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