Re: Driver for Logitech QuickCam E2500 series webcam

[Gavin Carr <gavin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 06:12:43PM +0100, Andrew Allen wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 12:16 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Andrew Allen <andy.allen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Does anybody know where I can find a driver for a Logitech E2500 webcam.
> > > I'm running CentOS 5 on my desktop and want to add a webcam for skype
> > > use. If I can yum install a driver from one of the repos that would be
> > > great.
> > >
> > > Andy
> > 
> > You may want to check out this CentOS wiki:
> > 
> > http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList/Webcams
> 
> Thanks - so do I just yum install dkms.noarch
> 2.0.22.0-1.el5.rf  from rpmforge?

No, 'yum install dkms-gspca'. That will pick up dkms as well if required.


> > and also ELRepo's kmod-video4linux driver:
> > 
> > http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-video4linux&highlight=webcam
> 
> Sorry - I don't understand what the actual package name is for this one
> and how do I install it?

rpm -Uvh http://elrepo.org/elrepo-release-0.1-1.el5.elrepo.noarch.rpm
yum install kmod-video4linux


You don't want both though - try one, and if that doesn't work uninstall
it and try the other.

Cheers,
Gavin

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