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Re: [LUG] webcams

 

Benjamin A'Lee wrote:
> 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.
> 

Of cause if you don't want to install the module (maybe you are just 
testing) try insmod ./quickcam.ko (when you are in the appropriate 
source directory of cause!) and you must be root.


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Robin Cornelius
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