Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Logitech 4000 video error

[Jan Nusselder <nusselder zonnet nl>]

Thanks George for your fantastic help.

On Tuesday 13 January 2004 11:26, George wrote:
> The pwc and pwcx modules are the drivers for the Logitech 4000 cam.
>
> I'm not familiar with SUSE and where your modules would be. In Red Hat
> they are in /lib/modules/<kernel.version.number>/kernel/drivers/usb.
>
> Try from root insmod pwc and see if it loads. If it does then do a find
> / -name pwcx* -print and see where the pwcx module is, and if it is not
> in your new kernel module tree, then move it there or load it explicitly
> from where it is.
>
> I load the pwcx module from my modules.config file like so:
>
> # Quickcam 4000 Drivers
> post-install pwc /sbin/insmod --force
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-20.9/kernel/drivers/usb/pwcx-2.4.20.o >/dev/null
> 2>&1 || :
> options pwc power_save=0 compression=3 size=cif leds=500,500 fps=10
>
> This loads the pwcx module after the pwc module is loaded and then
> passes some parameters to pwc.
>
> If your camera worked before then you have the pwc and pwcx modules on
> your system somewhere. If the pwcx module is not on your machine, then
> in GM you will only be able to transmit "small" video.
>
> You may have to recompile the pwc module if you get unresolved symbols
> errors when you do depmod -a since you have a new kernel.
>
> I hope this is not too confusing and is relevant to SUSE. Maybe someone
> on the list that runs SUSE can elaborate better.
>
> George
>
> > No, I don't see the pwc and pwcx drivers, yet.
> >
> > What does this mean?

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