Does anybody know where I can find a driver for a Logitech E2500 webcam. I'm running CentOS 5 on my desktop and want to add a webcam for skype use. If I can yum install a driver from one of the repos that would be great.
Andy
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Andrew Allen andy.allen@virgin.net wrote:
Does anybody know where I can find a driver for a Logitech E2500 webcam. I'm running CentOS 5 on my desktop and want to add a webcam for skype use. If I can yum install a driver from one of the repos that would be great.
Andy
You may want to check out this CentOS wiki:
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList/Webcams
and also ELRepo's kmod-video4linux driver:
http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-video4linux&highlight=webcam
Akemi
On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 12:16 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Andrew Allen andy.allen@virgin.net wrote:
Does anybody know where I can find a driver for a Logitech E2500 webcam. I'm running CentOS 5 on my desktop and want to add a webcam for skype use. If I can yum install a driver from one of the repos that would be great.
Andy
You may want to check out this CentOS wiki:
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList/Webcams
Thanks - so do I just yum install dkms.noarch 2.0.22.0-1.el5.rf from rpmforge?
and also ELRepo's kmod-video4linux driver:
Sorry - I don't understand what the actual package name is for this one and how do I install it?
Andy
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 06:12:43PM +0100, Andrew Allen wrote:
On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 12:16 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Andrew Allen andy.allen@virgin.net wrote:
Does anybody know where I can find a driver for a Logitech E2500 webcam. I'm running CentOS 5 on my desktop and want to add a webcam for skype use. If I can yum install a driver from one of the repos that would be great.
Andy
You may want to check out this CentOS wiki:
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList/Webcams
Thanks - so do I just yum install dkms.noarch 2.0.22.0-1.el5.rf from rpmforge?
No, 'yum install dkms-gspca'. That will pick up dkms as well if required.
and also ELRepo's kmod-video4linux driver:
Sorry - I don't understand what the actual package name is for this one and how do I install it?
rpm -Uvh http://elrepo.org/elrepo-release-0.1-1.el5.elrepo.noarch.rpm yum install kmod-video4linux
You don't want both though - try one, and if that doesn't work uninstall it and try the other.
Cheers, Gavin
Gavin Carr wrote:
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 06:12:43PM +0100, Andrew Allen wrote:
On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 12:16 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Andrew Allen andy.allen@virgin.net wrote:
Does anybody know where I can find a driver for a Logitech E2500 webcam. I'm running CentOS 5 on my desktop and want to add a webcam for skype use. If I can yum install a driver from one of the repos that would be great.
Andy
You may want to check out this CentOS wiki:
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList/Webcams
Thanks - so do I just yum install dkms.noarch 2.0.22.0-1.el5.rf from rpmforge?
No, 'yum install dkms-gspca'. That will pick up dkms as well if required.
and also ELRepo's kmod-video4linux driver:
Sorry - I don't understand what the actual package name is for this one and how do I install it?
rpm -Uvh http://elrepo.org/elrepo-release-0.1-1.el5.elrepo.noarch.rpm yum install kmod-video4linux
You don't want both though - try one, and if that doesn't work uninstall it and try the other.
Cheers, Gavin
I would go with the elrepo driver (but I'm biased) as it's more recent whereas the older gspca driver is now merged in the V4L/DVB tree.
Gavin gave details above on how to install :)
On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 20:56 +0100, Ned Slider wrote:
Gavin Carr wrote:
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 06:12:43PM +0100, Andrew Allen wrote:
On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 12:16 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Andrew Allen andy.allen@virgin.net wrote:
Does anybody know where I can find a driver for a Logitech E2500 webcam. I'm running CentOS 5 on my desktop and want to add a webcam for skype use. If I can yum install a driver from one of the repos that would be great.
Andy
You may want to check out this CentOS wiki:
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList/Webcams
Thanks - so do I just yum install dkms.noarch 2.0.22.0-1.el5.rf from rpmforge?
No, 'yum install dkms-gspca'. That will pick up dkms as well if required.
and also ELRepo's kmod-video4linux driver:
Sorry - I don't understand what the actual package name is for this one and how do I install it?
rpm -Uvh http://elrepo.org/elrepo-release-0.1-1.el5.elrepo.noarch.rpm yum install kmod-video4linux
You don't want both though - try one, and if that doesn't work uninstall it and try the other.
Cheers, Gavin
I would go with the elrepo driver (but I'm biased) as it's more recent whereas the older gspca driver is now merged in the V4L/DVB tree.
Gavin gave details above on how to install :)
Thanks, I've installed the driver as above from elrepo - OK except that I got these error messages: WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36050.ko needs unknown symbol videocodec_unregister WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36050.ko needs unknown symbol videocodec_register WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36067.ko needs unknown symbol videocodec_detach WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36067.ko needs unknown symbol videocodec_attach WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36060.ko needs unknown symbol videocodec_unregister WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36060.ko needs unknown symbol videocodec_register WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36016.ko needs unknown symbol videocodec_unregister WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36016.ko needs unknown symbol videocodec_register
Skype detected a camera OK but it doesn't seem to work - and when I click the 'test' button it just closes skype down! Any ideas please?
Andy
Andrew Allen wrote:
On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 20:56 +0100, Ned Slider wrote:
Gavin Carr wrote:
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 06:12:43PM +0100, Andrew Allen wrote:
On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 12:16 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Andrew Allen andy.allen@virgin.net wrote:
Does anybody know where I can find a driver for a Logitech E2500 webcam. I'm running CentOS 5 on my desktop and want to add a webcam for skype use. If I can yum install a driver from one of the repos that would be great.
Andy
You may want to check out this CentOS wiki:
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList/Webcams
Thanks - so do I just yum install dkms.noarch 2.0.22.0-1.el5.rf from rpmforge?
No, 'yum install dkms-gspca'. That will pick up dkms as well if required.
and also ELRepo's kmod-video4linux driver:
Sorry - I don't understand what the actual package name is for this one and how do I install it?
rpm -Uvh http://elrepo.org/elrepo-release-0.1-1.el5.elrepo.noarch.rpm yum install kmod-video4linux
You don't want both though - try one, and if that doesn't work uninstall it and try the other.
Cheers, Gavin
I would go with the elrepo driver (but I'm biased) as it's more recent whereas the older gspca driver is now merged in the V4L/DVB tree.
Gavin gave details above on how to install :)
Thanks, I've installed the driver as above from elrepo - OK except that I got these error messages: WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36050.ko needs unknown symbol videocodec_unregister WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36050.ko needs unknown symbol videocodec_register WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36067.ko needs unknown symbol videocodec_detach WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36067.ko needs unknown symbol videocodec_attach WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36060.ko needs unknown symbol videocodec_unregister WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36060.ko needs unknown symbol videocodec_register WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36016.ko needs unknown symbol videocodec_unregister WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/video4linux/zr36016.ko needs unknown symbol videocodec_register
That's a known issue with older kernels - don't worry about those warnings.
Skype detected a camera OK but it doesn't seem to work - and when I click the 'test' button it just closes skype down! Any ideas please?
Is it a bug with Skype or the Video4Linux driver?
Andy
That's a known issue with older kernels - don't worry about those warnings.
Skype detected a camera OK but it doesn't seem to work - and when I click the 'test' button it just closes skype down! Any ideas please?
Is it a bug with Skype or the Video4Linux driver?
That's a good question - trouble is I don't know how to test that the camera is working with the Video4Linux driver. Is there a command-line way of doing this?
Andy
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:02:00PM +0100, Andrew Allen wrote:
Skype detected a camera OK but it doesn't seem to work - and when I click the 'test' button it just closes skype down! Any ideas please?
Is it a bug with Skype or the Video4Linux driver?
That's a good question - trouble is I don't know how to test that the camera is working with the Video4Linux driver. Is there a command-line way of doing this?
I use 'luvcview', available from rpmforge.
Cheers, Gavin
On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 08:16 +0100, Gavin Carr wrote:
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:02:00PM +0100, Andrew Allen wrote:
Skype detected a camera OK but it doesn't seem to work - and when I click the 'test' button it just closes skype down! Any ideas please?
Is it a bug with Skype or the Video4Linux driver?
That's a good question - trouble is I don't know how to test that the camera is working with the Video4Linux driver. Is there a command-line way of doing this?
I use 'luvcview', available from rpmforge.
Thanks, I installed luvcview and tested the webcam - it works a treat! So now I know that the webcam works with the Video4Linux driver I'd like to use skype with video - I'm using the beta version of skype for CentOS: skype.i586 2.0.0.13-centos and the video doesn't seem to work - when I try to test the video it crashes. When I do yum list skype, it shows a newer version, skype.i586 2.0.0.72-fc5, in the skype repo which maybe has video working (?), but when I try to yum update to this, I get the error message 'Missing Dependency: qt4-x11 >= 4.2 is needed by package skype' I've got qt4 installed of course, for skype to work, so why is it showing qt4-x11 as missing? Any help appreciated so that I don't have to fall back on Windoze in order to use all the features of the webcam!
Andy
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