On Saturday 09 August 2008 08:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 11:37:47AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Shachar Or wrote: > >>> there is both a gspca-source and gspca-modules-... packages. IIRC, the > >>> spca5xx is being replaced upstream... > >> > >> All this talk about spca... Isn't there a quickcam specific driver? I > >> know there is... qc-usb-source is the package. I used for some logitech > >> quickcam some time ago. > > > > That's what I thought, when I was reading the list of packages found by > > Synaptic, when I searched for webcam. > > > > However, ... we are all of differing levels of Debian system > > administration competency, and I rely on packages being "ready to go" - > > either using Synaptic to download and install a package, and then > > expecting for it to be ready to use, or, using apt-get install, or, > > downloading a package and using dpkg -i . But, not having to compile and > > build a package. > > > > I found > > "The qc-usb-source package is a skeleton for creating a kernel module > > to drive Logitech's QuickCam Express webcam and other webcams with > > similar chipsets." > > and > > "qc-usb-utils > > Utility programs for the qc-usb kernel module > > Utilities to tweak paramters of your QuickCam Express or similar > > webcam. These programs are completely useless without a > > qc-usb-modules package." > > > > That sounds like that needs a kernel build to use - much too advanced > > for me. > > no no not at all. you can use module assistant, I'd bet.I just > checked, it is one of the packages you can build with > module-assistant. > > at a minimum, you can do: > > aptitude install module-assistant > m-a update > m-a prepare > m-a a-i qc-usb > > if all goes well, you'll be done. > > module-assistant also has a curses interface you can play with. Be > sure to check out /usr/share/doc/module-assistant/HOWTO > > it's very easy.
Very. > > A -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]