[CentOS] 5.5 & gspca

Thu Jun 17 20:10:32 UTC 2010
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

> On 14/06/10 18:58, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>>
>>> The standalone gspca code is old and deprecated. It's now maintained
as part of the Video4Linux v4l-dvb tree here:
>>>
>>> http://linuxtv.org/
<snip>
> The main v4l-dvb tree is here - just grab the latest tarball and build
it. Here if you don't see it:
>
> http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/archive/tip.tar.bz2
<snip>
> Development work on the gspca branch appears to happen here:
>
> http://linuxtv.org/hg/~hgoede/gspca/
>
> before being merged into the main v4l-dvb tree.
>
>>> Elrepo.org has a version built for el5 that supports many gspca based
devices:
>>>
>>> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-video4linux
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Ok, so I got the src rpm from el repo. Lessee, first I tried rpmbuild, and
that failed, because it *required* xen-devel. So I grabbed the tarfile
from /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES, unbzip2'd it, untar'd it, and did a make.
And ten or so later, I had 265 kernel modules. I don't want or need to
install all of that, so I tried just building gspca, and that failed with
unresolved errors.

Does anyone know if I can just install gspca*.ko, or even some subgroup of
that, or is it dependent on other of the built modules?

Two other notes: on an FC 13 box, I see that gspca literally comes with
the kernel - does anyone have a clue whether part of that subsystem is
available, or is that what I'm looking at, above?

Finally, in googling, I found a UVC that's supposed to deal with most USB
cameras. Does anyone know anything about it, or will I still need gspca?

         mark