WARNING: terminological blunders no doubt following.
In recent times, I have been using Fedora Core 3 with kernel version
2.6.11-1.14. Automatically available with that kernel is a driver for
webcams that have the sn9c102 controller chip. The driver supports the v4l2
API only.
I have a webcam which uses the sn9c102 chip and have been able to capture
images with the camera using a couple of simple v4l2 applications obtained
from the site to be mentioned in a moment.
The developer of the driver has made two drivers separately available at
www.linux-projects.org/modules/mydownloads.
One is version 1.24 of the driver that came with the kernel version I
mentioned above.
First question: how can I find the version number of the driver that came
with the kernel? (I tried to find it by looking at /var/logs/message, but
only found references to "sn9c102", with no version number added.)
The other, very recent, driver is a "binary-only driver for SN9C10x based
hardware with support for both Video4Linux1 and Video4Linux2". It requires
the use of "Fedora Core 3, 2.6.11-1.27_FC3".
I installed that version of the kernel and then downloaded the file
containing the very recent driver. I then uncompressed the file and tried
to install the driver, but failed.
In a folder, I found the file sn9c102_v4lx.ko, but no installation
instructions. However, in that folder was a file called "makefile", so I
assumed I had to issue the "make" command as a first step in installing the
driver. I did that and got back the prompt. There were no intervening error
messages. Then, I assumed I was supposed to issue the "make install"
command, so I did that, but got an error message about there being no
target file.
Second question (which may need more information before it can be
answered): if I'm not supposed to use "make install" to install the driver,
what am I supposed to do?
One reason why I am keen to get the recent driver going is that my ultimate
aim is to get the webcam going with videoconferencing. I know of only one
available videoconferencing program, GnomeMeeting. I also know that it
works with v4l1, but I haven't been able to figure out how to get it to
work with v4l2.
Third, fourth and fifth questions: are there any other videoconferencing
applications open to me; in any event, is it possible to use GnomeMeeting
with v4l2; and, if so, how?
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