CentOS - May 2006 - Configuring a Kodak EZ200 Webcam in CentOS 4.3

Hi.  I hate to ask because I'm not sure if this is one of those 
questions that don't "deserve an answer" but here goes:  My friend
gave
me a Kodak EZ-200 Webcam (USB) recently and I'm trying to configure it 
for use under CentOS 4.3.  I did a little research on the web and found 
that the Kodak EZ200 is supported using gphoto2 
(http://www.teaser.fr/~hfiguiere/linux/digicam.html - search "EZ200"
to
see that it is in the list of supported cameras).

My system has gphoto2-2.1.4-7 installed (I think this a system package), 
but when I look for EZ200 support (using 'gphoto2 --list-cameras'), the 
EZ200 is not listed.  I also did an 'rpm -ql gphoto2' and noticed that 
there is no "shared object file" (libgphoto2_kodak_*.so) for the
EZ200.
Is it that the EZ200 is only supported in a "newer" version of
gphoto2?
Is it alright for me to install a newer version?  I noticed that the 
gphoto2 website (http://www.gphoto.org/) has a tarball (version 2.1.99) 
that includes a spec file which I can certainly use to build an rpm.  
(Mind you, I just don't want to "break" my system or anything like
that,
although I would really like to get some use out of this webcam).  Any 
help would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.

Sincerely
Jose Alburquerque

Jos? Alburquerque wrote:
> My system has gphoto2-2.1.4-7 installed (I think this a system 
> package), but when I look for EZ200 support (using 'gphoto2 
> --list-cameras'), the EZ200 is not listed.  I also did an 'rpm -ql 
> gphoto2' and noticed that there is no "shared object file" 
> (libgphoto2_kodak_*.so) for the EZ200.  Is it that the EZ200 is only 
> supported in a "newer" version of gphoto2?  Is it alright for me
to
> install a newer version?  I noticed that the gphoto2 website 
> (http://www.gphoto.org/) has a tarball (version 2.1.99) that includes 
> a spec file which I can certainly use to build an rpm.  (Mind you, I 
> just don't want to "break" my system or anything like that,
although I
> would really like to get some use out of this webcam).  Any help would 
> be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.
>
> Sincerely
> Jose Alburquerque
I found a solution:  I found a source rpm for Fedora 3 which has support 
for this camera at 
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/SRPMS/gphoto2-2.1.5-1.1.src.rpm.
I downloaded and rebuilt this rpm successfully so I think I will be 
using this rpm.  If my logic is correct, this update will make it to 
CentOS 4 in the future since it is a Fedora 3 update but I'll install it 
now and think that it should work perfectly fine.  I understand why no 
one would suggest anything as it seems the solution might be a little 
complicated.  Thanks anyway though!

Sincerely
Jose Alburquerque