Yes! You can get your Logitech QuickCam E2500 webcam running in Fedora 11 using v4l-dvb drivers. I found this method following the comment of Filippo in my previous post.
I used the repository to install it, but you can use the tar.gz source package. I did the following steps:
- Install Mercurial: yum install mercurial
- Install Gcc, kernel headers… to compile the driver: yum install gcc kernel-devel
- Get a copy of the repository: hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb
- Compile the drivers and install them: cd v4l-dvb && make && make install
- Load the drivers: make load
- Run Ekiga and test the webcam… It works!
I use the repository to update the driver in the future. This method is based in the upstream wiki and it may work with other versions of Fedora or Linux distributions.
Samuel Iglesias is a free software and Open source Hardware supporter. He is working as Linux device driver developer at Igalia, a free software company located in A Coruña, Spain.
It’s great to have your webcam working, but it would be much better to have it working out of box right ?
Hans is trying to do that for Fedora 12 [1].
Be sure to let him know how to make your webcam work
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterWebcamSupport
Oh great! I sent him an email telling how I configured my webcam.
So strange… I have E2500 and it works out of the box from 2.6.29 (that Fedora has) on:
http://forums.quickcamteam.net/showthread.php?tid=310&pid=2577#pid2577
You just need to disable autogain through v4l2ucp.
tried above steps but failed to see video. Quickcam is detected by usb but not able to disply vidio even in camstream. in fedora 10 it was working fine.
when i typed make itshows me errors like thic.
make -C /home/avichal/v4l-dvb/v4l
make[1]: Entering directory
/home/avichal/v4l-dvb/v4l'/home/avichal/v4l-dvb/v4l’make[1]: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory
make: *** [all] Error 2
I don’t know. Next week I will try again this steps and I tell if I have the same problem than you.
Hello there, just wandered by. I have a Logitech site. Amazing the amount of information on the web. Wasn’t exactly what I was looking for, but very nice site. Cya later.