--- On Tue, 27/1/09, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> wrote: From: Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> Subject: Re: Webcam installation To: mbrace...@yahoo.co.uk Date: Tuesday, 27 January, 2009, 8:03 PM
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 18:52:35 Moshe Brace using Yahoo wrote: > Because if possible I would like help in solving the problem on > installing my web camera. That's fine. But if you send this message to a mailing list, there will be more people who can help you. See: http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/telux/lecture-notes/w2l-2007-how-to-ask-qs.odp > I suppose that I should have sent this e-mail to > the forum. Yes, you should have. > I also thought that is a very interesting subject for > discussion. I have not learnt how to compile the download which is sitting > on my desktop.Thanking you in advanceMoshe OK. Send it to Linux-IL ( http://www.hamakor.org.il/mailing-lists/linux-il.html ) and then other people and I will be able to help you. Regards, Shlomi Fish > > --- On Tue, 27/1/09, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> wrote: > From: Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> > Subject: Re: Webcam installation > To: "Moshe Brace" <mbrace...@yahoo.co.uk> > Date: Tuesday, 27 January, 2009, 1:02 PM > > Hi! > > Why are you sending me this message? It was emailed to me in private. > > And it's hard to understand whether you solved the problems you had or not > and > what you tried so far. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > On Monday 26 January 2009 22:51:59 Moshe Brace wrote: > > I am a Newbe to Linux Mandriva 2009.1 > > > > One of the most daunting things that I find about Linux is the Install > > procedure. I rack my brains wondering how to do it. I open the Console > > Control Pane sit there thinking how it's done. Yes I know that the > > Applications that are .rpm will be installed more or less automatically. > > However, here is the crunch: I have a Web Cam which I downloaded from > > the Internet a driver for it from the Frenchman who makes drivers. I > > installed the CIF Single Chip PAC Pixart type camera in the Mandriva > > 2008.1 Spring Edition although the colouring of the picture was Magenta > > it did work. Under Mandriva recommendation I upgraded to 2009.1, hey > > presto doesn't recognise it and what's more Skype says it > > doesn't exist. > > > I bet that I'm not the only person that has this problem and can't > > solve > > > it. Someone wrote in a forum obtain the source. I downloaded the file it > > sits nicely on the Desktop, and that's where it remains. I don't > > know > > > how to compile or install from an extracted tar.gz The console says to > > me what folder or the such. My desktop is /moshe/desktop > > > > I look at all the written forums and just don't know how to continue. > > This is a major drawback to Linux. I had thought of using Wine, but > > likewise it just says debug Yes or No and crashes the Windows installed > > driver Amcap. > > > > I got this reply in www.linuxquestions.org > > <http://www.linuxquestions.org/> But I really don't know how to > > do > > > this: > > > > the fix is this I have a pixart and the new kernel with the gspca_main > > driver that comes with the new kernel is limited so what I did was make > > sure you have all the stuff to compile with. > > and go to you /lib/modules/uname -r/ kernel/drivers/usb/media and cut > > and paste the gspca_main for safe keep.. then go here > > http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html > > <http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html> if there is one for 2009 get > > it > > > or other wise get the source and do a make and make install. reboot and > > your fixed. do not ask me why the 2.6.24 kernel had know problem but the > > 2.6.27 and up have a new /usb/media file loaction. all will be well. if > > you can compile. other wise find an rpm that matches your kernel. > > > > Yours > > Moshe -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ What does "Zionism" mean? - http://xrl.us/bjn8u <mauke> I'm not interested in what you're doing; what are you trying to achieve? <PerlJam> mauke: I'm trying to achieve world peace and this regex is the last thing standing in my way! ;)
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