Hello all. I'm fairly new at the driver thing, but I have a sloppy workaround that
makes the driver work for the latest kernel (2.6.17-1.2157_FC5smp in my case) with a
QuickCam Communicate STX. I don't know why it works, I only know that is works. Any
input would be appreciated.
1. Get the driver sources from
http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html
Unzip and navigate to the directory
2. Add the line "DEFINES += -fno-unit-at-a-time" around line 29 in the
Makefile
3. As root, execute
make clean
make
make install
4. To load the module, execute
insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx.ko
I tried it before with just modprobe, and I kept getting an error that there was an
unknown parameter in the kernel module. I found this while reverting to my old webcam (a
regular QuickCam Communicate) and using the qc-usb-messenger driver. It would work fine
when I first compiled and loaded it, but after a reboot I also got the unknown parameter
error. I just added the insmod line /etc/rc.d/rc.local to have it execute at startup.
This makes the camera work with camstream and ekiga. Vanity still won't detect it.
If this is a totally wrong solution that is messing/will mess up my system, please let me
know.
Thanks,
Marco Turcios
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