Re: [Qce-ga-discussion] Installation problems quickcam express on suse 10.1

[Kurt W. <kw...@ku...>]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 09:35:41AM +0200, Christian Haunert wrote:
> Hi=20
> I was about to install the quickcam driver qc-usb-0.6.4 on Suse Linux
> 10.1. Was logged in into the console as user 'root'.

You can extract and build the source as a normal users. You only
need to be root to install it.

> First of all I encountered error while extracting the tar file. The
> messages say that I do have no right to extract. Meanwhile I found out
> the owner of the file is set to 'kwall'.=20
> Do I have to be 'Root' to install the driver ? Can=C2=B4t be, was alrea=
dy
> 'root'.
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> Next Problem I found is that the instructions for invoking the driver t=
o
> my system won=C2=B4t work
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> As you can see here
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> noname:/windows/G/Download/quickcam/qc-usb-0.6.4 # insmod ./quickcam.ko
> insmod: error inserting './quickcam.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module
> noname:/windows/G/Download/quickcam/qc-usb-0.6.4 # ./quickcam.sh
> bash: ./quickcam.sh: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Keine Berechtigung
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> By the way
> The 'make all' ended with=20
> gcc -Wall -O2 -s qcset.c -o qcset -lm
> qcset.c: In function =E2=80=98pnm_open=E2=80=99:
> qcset.c:390: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of =E2=80=98=
fopen=E2=80=99
> differ in signedness
> qcset.c: In function =E2=80=98main=E2=80=99:
> qcset.c:661: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of
> =E2=80=98pnm_open=E2=80=99 differ in signedness   =20

I fixed this.

> What can you propose me to do next ? Any suggestions?

There is an new driver version (0.6.5) at
http://www.kurtwerks.com/linux/qc-usb.html. Please try that one, as it
contains a fix that permits the kernel to compile on kernel 2.6.18.

Best regards,

Kurt
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