Hi Laurent and Dirk, > Hi Henrik. > > > I'm new to the list *and* to webcams so excuse me if this has been > > up before. I downloaded and compiled the uvcvideo module and i've > > managed to load it. However, I can still not access the device. /dev/video0 > > does not exist. I've tried to run MAKEDEV with different settings without > > success. When I run dmesg I get the following error > > > > uvcvideo: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module > > > > This makes me suspect that I haven't compiled the module against > > the right headers(?). uname -r gives: > > > > 2.6.19-1.2288.fc5smp > > > > and the kernel source is: > > > > 2.6.19-1.2288.2.4.fc5-i586 > > > > I'm on FC5 and a Dell 640m. > > You're probably right. The module seems to have been compiled against another > set of headers. You must make sure the kernel source tree matches your > running kernel. I have no experience with Fedora, so the only advice I can > give you is to try to compile a custom kernel and see if the module will > load. > Thanks for your help. The whole thing was probably due to faulty symlinks. I removed all sources and cleared out the /usr/src/kernel/ directory and reinstalled the kernel source. After that the uvc compiled and loaded beautifully. Thanks for the great work with uvc!
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