>> I have decided to venture into new teritory. I downloaded a driver
>> (hopefully) for my webcam. The tar -xed file contains a bunch of c and
>> header programs. I need to know what to do. These are the programs
>> that I am talking about:
>>
>> knoppix@bmike1:~/Downloads/nthr cam/pwc-8.11/2.4.21$ ls
>> ls
>> pwc-ctrl.c pwc-ioctl.h pwc-uncompress.c pwc.h pwc_nala.h
>> pwc-if.c pwc-misc.c pwc-uncompress.h pwc_kiara.h pwc_timon.h
>>
>> One that I find particularly interesting is the pwc-uncompress.c
>> because (though I am inexperienced) I think that it will uncompress
>> all the other programs contained with it; however, I am unsure. Could
>> someone teach me what I need to know and how to run gcc?
>
>
> Look for a README or INSTALL file in the root directory of the untarred
> files (e.g. ~/Downloads/nthr cam/pwc-8.11). It should explain how you
> go about installing this driver.
PS:
Read the following:
http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/install.html
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