Trouble with quickcam express and inserting the module

[Alexander Antoniades]

Does anyone know will HAL ever support Video4Linux? I too tried to
hook up a web cam just for the heck of it, and Hal identfies it, but
doesn't connect it to the V4L susbsytem.

Sander


On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 04:13:27 -0800, Bob Nielsen <nielsen at oz.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 06:43:50PM +1100, Adam Membrey wrote:
> > Adam Membrey wrote:
> >
> > >Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > >
> > >>On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 05:41:21PM +1100, Adam Membrey wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>I've downloading the qc-usb-0.6.2 and I've compiled the module with
> > >>>make all.
> > >>>
> > >>>I've then tried to sudo insmod quickcam.o and it says invalid module
> > >>>format.
> > >>>
> > >>>Looking at dmesg it says "no module found in object"
> > >>>
> > >>>Anyone have any suggestions or work arounds?
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>The syntax would be 'insmod quickcam' or 'modprobe quickcam' (without
> > >>the .o or .ko).
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >Well I'm managed to successfully do an insmod of the quickcam.ko and
> > >it detects the hardware ....is there anything I need to do after this
> > >? specifically loading it at boot
> > >
> > hmmm did an insmod...which loaded the module...added it to my modules
> > list and it didnt load..did a modprobe on quickcam and it said module
> > not found..yet I go to the compile directory, insprobe it again and it
> > loads >:\
> >
> > Anyone able to help? I realise this is getting annoying but I'm very new
> > to linux as you can tell
> 
> The easiest way would be to create a script in /etc/init.d which does
> what you successfully did manually and link to it from /etc/rc2.d (use
> update-rc.d to do this).
> 
> The ideal way is to compile and install it such that it gets put under
> /lib/modules/<kernel-version>, such that it will either be loaded
> automatically or from an entry in /etc/modules.  This can be somewhat
> tricky, but doing so will get up well up the Linux learning curve. :^)
> 
> IMHO, the safest way is to install kernel-package with synaptic (or
> create a .deb which you can install with dpkg.  This is also the "Debian
> way" to create a custom kernel.
> 
> Be sure to read /usr/local/kernel-package/README.modules as well as the
> man page for make-kpkg.  You will need either the linux-source or
> linux-headers package which matches the kernel you are using.  You will
> need to have the '--revision=' option to make-kpkg match the kernel
> version.
> 
> It will definitely be a learning experience.  Good luck.
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
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