camorama

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Wed Jan 30 20:06:59 UTC 2008


Thomas Kaiser wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>     
>>> Thomas Kaiser wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>    Hi Thomas something went wrong with the make install. I did this:
>>>
>>> root at karl-desktop:~# locate gspca.o
>>> /home/karl/work/gspcav1-20071214/.gspca.o.cmd
>>> /home/karl/work/gspcav1-20071214/gspca.o
>>>
>>> and it says this kernel item was not put in the kernel at all. I am an 
>>> old hand at tarballs but this one is different. I will make sure that 
>>> make install has the right address and truck on. Thanks!
>>>
>>> Karl
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>     Hi again Thomas I went to the kernel's modules and found this:
>>
>> root at karl-desktop:/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/ubuntu/media# cd gspcav1/
>> root at karl-desktop:/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/ubuntu/media/gspcav1# ls
>> gspca.ko
>> root at karl-desktop:/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/ubuntu/media/gspcav1#
>>
>> And this is the only filename.ko in the tarball and made by the system. 
>> I think maybe I need to make this module available to the kernel.
>>
>> I did a ps -A and did not see gspca so that must be the problem :-)
>>
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>
>>     
>
> Hello Karl
>
> First, the command to see the modules in the kernel is "lsmod", not ps -A! And 
> the file your looking for is gspca.ko not gspca.o!
>
> So, you run Gutsy.
> On my install, I have a /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/ubuntu/media/gspcav1/ 
> folder but his is empty. See:
>
> thomas at AMD64:~$ ls /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/ubuntu/media/gspcav1/
> thomas at AMD64:~$
>
> The correct location is /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/ubuntu/gspcav1/media/. See:
> thomas at AMD64:~$ ls /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/ubuntu/gspcav1/media/
> gspca.ko  gspca.ko.orig
> thomas at AMD64:~$
>
> When you set the MODULE_INSTALLDIR variable to this path, you should have the 
> kernel module there.
>
> Thomas
>
>   
    Here is locate again:
karl at karl-desktop:~$ locate gspca.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/ubuntu/media/gspcav1/gspca.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/drivers/usb/media/gspca.ko
/home/karl/work/gspcav1-20071214/.gspca.ko.cmd
/home/karl/work/gspcav1-20071214/gspca.ko

I did a # modprobe gspca which was successful it appears. It shows up at 
the top like this:

root at karl-desktop:~# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
gspca                 608336  0
videodev               29312  1 gspca
v4l2_common            18432  1 videodev
v4l1_compat            15364  1 videodev

So I need to make sure gspca is loaded automatically. I think it is 
/etc/modeprobe.conf but not certain on Debian.

Karl


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