On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 17:39 +0530, Vidyadhar Bhise wrote:

Internet connection on my laptop is taken from my windows xp desktop. and i am a newbie with linux. Please guide to restore yum and also regarding the webcam. thank you.

Get your machine to HBCSE. Someone will take a look at it. I'm there on most days but confirm with me before you come. Why not try a different distro till then? Say debian? Ubuntu? Mandriva? Slackware??

On 10/28/07, Vidyadhar Bhise vnb2005@gmail.com wrote:

Hi, I have recently bought the acer 4710z laptop, with linpus linux installed. I formatted and installed Fedora 7 on it. The webcam (acer Crystal eye) was not detected thus i tried the script given on forums.....http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=169878

Dear Vidhyadhar,

this link should be closer to the mark for you. Basically, it recommends the latest kernel with the linux-uvc module that supports the usb cam and a GStreamer update.

http://www.fishpool.org/post/2007/08/21/Acer-Crystal-Eye-and-GStreamer

After this i started experiencing problems with yum and though webcam

was detected, was not compatible with video drivers. The GUI of software updater also hangs most of the time. Internet connection on my laptop is taken from my windows xp desktop. and i am a newbie with linux. Please guide to restore yum and also regarding the webcam. thank you.

If you're anywhere round the western suburbs, you can drop in to my place, as i have full local mirror of all F7 x86_64 repositories. You can update your system without downloading 1+GB of updates even. contact me off-list for details.

Regards R. K. Rajeev

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