Hi, On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 01:36:59PM +0200, Felix H. Dahlke wrote: > On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 12:42 +0200, thveillon.debian wrote: > > gspca has been inside the kernel since 2.6.27 onward. > > Ah, the missing link, thank you! > > > So from 2.6.27 you don't need any other source package, just userland tools. > > If you add debian backport to your sources.list I believe you'll have > > access to a 2.6.30 kernel, with gspca compiled as a module most probably. > > Yes, it was my mistake to assume that the 2.6.30 kernel offered to me by > aptitude search was from the stable repositories - I already have the > lenny backports repository. > > However, I'm wondering why aptitude search and aptitude install show and > install packages from backports when I'm not specifically using -t > lenny-backports. That's a bit creepy.
No. It is for your sake :-) You may not wish to use all of the backported packages. We make this kind of archives as NotAutomatic archives. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_volatile_and_backports_org http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_archive_level_release_files > Nonetheless, I've installed linux-image-2.6.30-bpo.2-686 (I think the > bpo stands for backport, but what does the .2 stand for? If a .3 was > released, would I automatically get it when updating?) and the webcam is > recognised properly - this solves my case. That depends on how you set up /etc/apt/preferences . Default is not. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_tweaking_candidate_version > In fact, it doesn't work (merely a black screen in cheese), so I'll just > return it to the shop. Anyways, thanks for the fast help, really > appreciated! For my case, I needed to put some non-free driver binary from MacOS to USB connected camera. Please google info specific to your hardware. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
