On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 20:56 +0100, Ned Slider wrote:
> Gavin Carr wrote:
> > 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
> >
>
> I would go with the elrepo driver (but I'm biased) as it's more recent
> whereas the older gspca driver is now merged in the V4L/DVB tree.
>
> Gavin gave details above on how to install :)
Thanks,
I've installed the driver as above from elrepo - OK except that I got
these error messages:
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36050.ko
needs unknown symbol videocodec_unregister
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36050.ko
needs unknown symbol videocodec_register
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36067.ko
needs unknown symbol videocodec_detach
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36067.ko
needs unknown symbol videocodec_attach
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36060.ko
needs unknown symbol videocodec_unregister
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36060.ko
needs unknown symbol videocodec_register
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36016.ko
needs unknown symbol videocodec_unregister
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36016.ko
needs unknown symbol videocodec_register
Skype detected a camera OK but it doesn't seem to work - and when I
click the 'test' button it just closes skype down! Any ideas please?
Andy
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