On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 8:37 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2003 20:28 schrieb Anne Wilson: > > On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 5:04 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: > > > Am Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2003 16:27 schrieb Anne Wilson: > > > > With a lot of help from the GnomeMeeting list I have finally > > > > got it working as user - this with pwcx forced. I now need > > > > to make it automatically do this. As I understand it I now > > > > have to insert into /etc/modules.conf the line > > > > post-install pwc /sbin/insmod -f > > > > /home/anne/tmp/ToUcam/usb-pwcx-8.2.2/x86/gcc-3.2/pwcx-2.4.20. > > > >o > /dev/null 2>&1 || : > > > > > > > > Does that look right? I'm not sure what the last part of > > > > this means. > > > > > > Hell. Please copy pwcx-2.4.20.o to /lib/modules/<uname > > > -r>/misc/ , > > > > done > > > > > run depmod -a afterwards > > > > Problems - depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in > > /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/misc/pwcx-2.4.20.o > > I guess this is quite normal. You propably have compiled the driver > module w/o module versioning support. This can cause this error. > That's a relief <g>
> > > and then insmod it from where or try > > > modprobe on it. I don't think its a good idea to insmod a > > > kernelmodule from users home (maybe the dir has write access > > > for the user ... > > > > What now? > > The above error doesn't mean necessarily anything bad. Just change > the insmod line to correct the path. I was just concerned that the > module lays in your home. If you want "make it right" , you could > recompile the module. With some drivers i had that too. With > DEFINES= -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -D__KERNEL__ -DNDEBUG > the problem was cured. > Thanks, Steffen. It works fine from it's new home. Now all I have to do is find out how to keep the right perms on /dev/video* Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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