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Re: [LUG] webcams

 

Paul Sutton wrote:
> I managed to compile a driver for my labtec camera  the other day,   it 
> worked (labtec using a quick cam driver),  I got a pic in camerama,  at 
> the end of the install it said something about using
> 
> modprobe quickcam,  to load the driver however this is coming up with
> 
> FATAL: Module quickcam not found.
> 
> I have even tried this in the /usr/src/modules/qc-usb-source
> 
> running ls in this directory gives
> 
> APPLICATIONS     debian                        qc-formats.c  
> qc-pb0100.c     quickcam.mod.c
> COPYING          debug.sh                      qc-formats.o  
> qc-pb0100.o     quickcam.mod.o
> CREDITS          freeshm.sh                    qc-hdcs.c     
> qc-vv6410.c     quickcam.o
> FAQ              linux-2.4.20-quickcam.patch   qc-hdcs.o     
> qc-vv6410.o     quickcam.sh
> Makefile         linux-2.6.18.patch            qc-memory.c   
> qcset           show.c
> Module.symvers   linux-2.6.7-quickcam.patch    qc-memory.h   
> qcset.c         testquickcam
> Modules.symvers  linux-2.6.8.1-quickcam.patch  qc-memory.o   
> qcweb-info.txt  videodev2.h
> README.qce       qc-driver.c                   qc-mjpeg.c    
> quickcam.h      videodevfix.h
> TODO             qc-driver.o                   qc-mjpeg.o    quickcam.ko
> 
> any idea whats going on,   or how to get the module to load again
> 
> thanks
> 
> Paul
> 

I take it you used the command make to build the driver?

Have you tried the command

make install

to install the driver into the modules directory?  (needs to be run as 
root).

Rob




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