latest kernel's gspca-kmod missing

[Farkas Levente]

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?

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