Re: [Linux-uvc-devel] Logitech Quickcam for Notebooks Pro

[Peter R. <pbr...@gm...>]

On 1/30/06, Karljohan Lundin <ka...@it...> wrote:
>
> >> P.S. This is strictly off-topic, but I don't know how to get 'modprobe
> >> uvcvideo' to work; it's in a .../usb/media folder with regular permissions,
> >> and I have to use 'insmod uvcvideo.ko'.
> >
> > You should be able do do a make install which will install it into
> > /lib/modules. The a depmod -a to redo the modules then a modprobe
> > uvcvideo
>
> I had the same problem using Ubuntu. It seems that the module ends up in
> /lib/modules/2.6.12/usb/media/ and not in
> /lib/modules/2.6.12-10-686/kernel/drivers/usb/media/ which is the
> correct location for the modules with the kernel version I'm currently
> running. I will assume that the UVC driver install procedure is correct,
> so there is probably some link missing in the default Ubuntu
> installation. Anyhow, manually moving the kernel object to the correct
> folder makes modprobe and modinfo working.

In Fedora mine ends up in /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.1819_FC5/usb/media/
whereas is should be /lib/modules/....../kernel/drivers/usb/media/ so
it seems that part of the problem is in the local Makefile, and part
maybe in the distro (or maybe the way the Makefile calculates the
kernel version and hence the /lib/blah location -> what does a 'uname
-a' report  as the kernel version?).

Pete