Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 08:34:20AM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 08:27:53AM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
On Sunday 04 November 2007 07:35, John Schmidt wrote:
On Sunday 04 November 2007, Marc Shapiro wrote:
It looks like the driver module that I need is spca501. There is a
source package for Etch:
spca5xx-source
Do this:
sudo m-a
It will put up a dialogue box, and then you need to first prepare the
build
by downloading the kernel headers. Then choose select and check the
spca5xx-source, and it should download it for you. Then build it and
install it. These are all menu selectable items in module assitant.
Unless I am mistaking, I read somewhere that spca5xx was for kernel up to
2.6.11, for later kernel you need gspca-sources.
You are correct.
So, do I follow the instructions that John gave above and substitute
gspca-source for spca5xx-source?
yep, but take note of John's continuation of this thread. I'm not sure
what he'd doing there, but it may apply to your situation.
A
Well, I tried to follow the above instructions, but...
I didn't have the kernel headers for my 2.6.16 kernel and they do not
seem to be available in the Etch repository. I took this as a sign that
it was time to upgrade my kernel and upgraded to 2.6.22-3-k7 from
backports. Then I reran module-assistant.
This time, m-a found and downloaded the kernel headers. I then selected
the module to compile. The gspca-source was not listed, so I used the
spca5xx-source. When I tried to build the sources, however, the build
failed. The logfile contained nothing but the date and time, so I have
no specific errors to report. It may be that the problem is using
spca5xx-source instead of gspca-source, but that was not listed as an
option. If I download it manually, might m-a find it and allow me to
use it.
Any ideas on what I should try next?
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