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Re: [LUG] webcams

 

On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 07:10:00PM +0100, 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
[...]
> any idea whats going on,   or how to get the module to load again

The module shouldn't be in that directory; modprobe will only find it if
it's somewhere in /lib/modules. Try running `make install` in
/usr/src/modules/qc-usb-source - you'll need to be root.

        Ben

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