Hi all, I discovered a strange behaviour since some time. Maybe someone can explain it:
I am running an Acer Crystal Eye Cam ( 5986:0102 Acer Crystal Eye webcam), and the cam is running fine (driver is uvcvideo). Lucview is working, and kopete shows video, when I am in the settings menu. But I am wondering, why the driver is always incative (green led is off), when I am not running any application, which it is directly accessing (like xawtv, kopete or whatever)? Whenever I am starting one of these applications, the green led is on, I get a picture/video, but when I leave it, the green led gets off. This means for me: The driver is now inactive! In the past, I could never see this behaviour, the green led was always on. Might this be the reason, why camorama, kdetv or other video-applications cannot access to /dev/videoX ? The access rights are of course set correctly, running as root gets no success either. So, is this normal? If yes, why? If not, how can I fix it? This is the output of lsmod: v4l1_compat 12932 2 uvcvideo,videodev v4l2_compat_ioctl32 9296 1 videodev Thank you for any information. Regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
