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puzzleman

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Registered: 2008-02-06

Posts: 6

linux-uvc-svn and Kernel 2.6.24.ARCH problem

Hi! I had linux-uvc-svn installed in my x64 system and my webcam worked ok, but i have updated the kernel to 2.6.24 version and now, i have the next message:

FATAL: Error inserting uvcvideo (/lib/modules/2.6.24-ARCH/kernel/drivers/media/video/usbvideo/uvcvideo.ko): Invalid module format

This new kenel support my Ricoh card reader, so i want to use it.

Does anyone know how to use uvc and the new kernel?

Thanks!!

bangkok_manouel

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Registered: 2005-02-07

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Re: linux-uvc-svn and Kernel 2.6.24.ARCH problem

Change 2.6.23 to be 2.6.24 in linux-uvc.install and linux-uvc-svn PKGBUILD and rebuild the package.

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puzzleman

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Registered: 2008-02-06

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Re: linux-uvc-svn and Kernel 2.6.24.ARCH problem

Thanks! bu there is no reference to 2.6.23 kernel in that files.

Thanks again!

bangkok_manouel

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Re: linux-uvc-svn and Kernel 2.6.24.ARCH problem

Are you familiar with abs & makepkg ? If not, check the wiki, you'll find nice info about that. That's what you need right now to solve your problem (if you don't want to wait for the package update). A short how-to:

Install necessary tools
#pacman -S base-devel

Sync your abs tree
#abs

Go to /var/abs/community/multimedia/modules or something similar (can't check now but anyway, find the linux-uvc-svn folder that will be a somewhere in /var/abs/community/)

Copy the linux-uvc-svn folder to a place where you have rw permissions.

Inside that folder you'll find a PKGBUILD file and a .install file, edit them and change every "2.6.23" to "2.6.24".

Start building your package
$makepkg -c

Install it once it's done
#pacman -U name_of_the_package.pkg.tar.gz

Load your module
#modprobe uvcvideo (IIRC that's the name of the module)

That's it.

EDIT: you have to enable [community] in abs:
edit /etc/abs/abs.conf
remove the ! in front of community

Last edited by bangkok_manouel (2008-02-12 13:19:08)

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puzzleman

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Registered: 2008-02-06

Posts: 6

Re: linux-uvc-svn and Kernel 2.6.24.ARCH problem

Ok it's done, the problem was that the PKGBUILD and .install files that i donwloaded from aur were wrong. I downloaded correctly and i found the references to 2.6.23 and changed them to 2.6.24. I did makepkg and depmod and modprobe and everything is ok again.

Thanks for your help bangkok_manouel !!!

niller

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2008-02-12

Posts: 91

Re: linux-uvc-svn and Kernel 2.6.24.ARCH problem

Cool !!

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