latest kernel's gspca-kmod missing

[Hans de Goede]

Farkas Levente wrote:
> Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>>>> Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 21:31 +0100, Farkas Levente
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> the gspca-kmod missing for the latest kernel.
>>>> it'd be useful for
>>>>>> everybody who has webcam.
>>>>> # rpm -qpl
>>>> /home/repo/remote/fedora/updates/9/i386.newkey/kernel-2.6.27.5-37.fc9.i686.rpm
>>>>
>>>> | grep -c '/gspca.\+\.ko'
>>>>> 21
>>>>>
>>>>> That's probably why it's missing.
>>>> and skype immediately crash with it when try to open
>>>> camera:-(
>>>>
>>> I hate to say it but I confirm this. Kopete doesn't crash but shows
>>> garbage.
>>> Should we talk to Fedora-kernel guys?
>> No need to do that they are reading along here (atleast I (the webcam
>> dev) am), please see my comment at the end of this bug report which
>> explains the problem and how to work around it:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471726
>>
>> I'm sorry but a workaround is all I can do for F-9, in F-10 things will
>> work out of the box (except skype, that will still require the workaround).
> 
> any change to skype work out of box without this workaround in the near
> future?
> 

Sure if they release the code under the FOSS license in the near future fixing 
it will be no problem, but only if that happens.

Regards,

Hans