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jazznuts

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Registered: 2020-03-24

Posts: 20

v4l2loopback-dkms Install Trouble

Hi,

I'm trying to set up my camera as a webcam, and for that I need v4l2loopback-dkms. However, when I try to install it pacman gives the following error:

==> Unable to install module v4l2loopback/0.12.5 for kernel *: Missing kernel headers.

Installing the linux headers package, I can install v4l2loopback-dkms, but it seems to remove /lib/modules/5.7.10-arch1-1 so I can't use modprobe to add to add the custom modules I need to get the webcam setup to work.

Any ideas on how to resolve this?

Last edited by jazznuts (2020-07-23 21:06:49)

jarshvor

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Registered: 2012-07-26

Posts: 31

Re: v4l2loopback-dkms Install Trouble

You might want to install the 'linux-headers' and 'dkms' packages from the repos.
As I understand, they are needed in order to install DKMS package modules.

#Source
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dy … le_Support

Install the dkms package and the headers for the target kernel/kernels. For example, for the default linux kernel this would be linux-headers. Other kernels have their own respective headers packages.

Last edited by jarshvor (2020-08-07 04:01:51)