On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Brandon Philips <brandon@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 13:17 Wed 20 Feb 2008, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i just picked up a logitech quickcam communicate STX webcam for my > > fedora 8 system, and was pointed in the direction of: > > > > http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html > > > > from where i grabbed the gspcav1-20071224.tar.gz tarball, > > uncompressed, build module, installed and the webcam simply worked. > > so the question is -- is that software an *alternative* to what's in > > the kernel right now in terms of spca-related drivers? > > The gspca author has never submitted the driver to the mainline Kernel. > That is why it isn't in regular 2.6 releases. Indeed. There has been a discussion on this on the gspca mailing list a while ago: http://lists-archives.org/spca50x-devs/01167-adding-gspca-to-the-mainline-kernel.html The authors have several objections against mainlining the driver... I don't think this will change soon. Regards, Thomas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
