ChristosHDJ
June 9th, 2011, 01:39 PM
Hi everyone,
I was going through some old stuff I had in a drawer of mine and I found this old webcam (Creative Webcam PD1001) and I thought that it 'd be nice to use it. Unfortunatelly, I just can't get it to work. After some google-ling I found these set of instructions:
1. Download the source files that are included in epcam-src-ubuntu-0.7.1.tar.gz
2. Open a terminal
3. Go the directory where you download epcam-src-ubuntu-0.7.1.tar.gz
4. Copy-Paste in your terminal each of the following lines exactly as it is :
tar xfvz epcam-src-ubuntu-0.7.1.tar.gz
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` linux- restricted-modules-`uname -r`
sudo make
sudo make install
sudo make clean
So I thought "Great problem solved". Unfortunately, when I tried to run the "sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` linux- restricted-modules-`uname -r" command the following konsole msg appeared:
E: Unable to locate package linux-restricted-modules-2.6.38-10-generic
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-restricted-modules-2.6.38-10-generic'
After google-ling a bit more I realised that for my kernel version - 2.6.38-10-generic - this package is not out yet. So I thought that maybe I can find an older version of the package, for another version of kernel that may be compatible with mine. But that's as far as I went. I can't find anything and even if I do, how will I know that the package version will be compatible with my kernel version?
Any other suggestions will be really helpful.
Cheers,
Christos
I was going through some old stuff I had in a drawer of mine and I found this old webcam (Creative Webcam PD1001) and I thought that it 'd be nice to use it. Unfortunatelly, I just can't get it to work. After some google-ling I found these set of instructions:
1. Download the source files that are included in epcam-src-ubuntu-0.7.1.tar.gz
2. Open a terminal
3. Go the directory where you download epcam-src-ubuntu-0.7.1.tar.gz
4. Copy-Paste in your terminal each of the following lines exactly as it is :
tar xfvz epcam-src-ubuntu-0.7.1.tar.gz
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` linux- restricted-modules-`uname -r`
sudo make
sudo make install
sudo make clean
So I thought "Great problem solved". Unfortunately, when I tried to run the "sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` linux- restricted-modules-`uname -r" command the following konsole msg appeared:
E: Unable to locate package linux-restricted-modules-2.6.38-10-generic
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-restricted-modules-2.6.38-10-generic'
After google-ling a bit more I realised that for my kernel version - 2.6.38-10-generic - this package is not out yet. So I thought that maybe I can find an older version of the package, for another version of kernel that may be compatible with mine. But that's as far as I went. I can't find anything and even if I do, how will I know that the package version will be compatible with my kernel version?
Any other suggestions will be really helpful.
Cheers,
Christos