Would a usb camera be /dev/input/video instead of /dev/video ?
or isnt there a generic type of device like for mice.


On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Manuel McLure wrote:

> On 2001.04.14 10:58 Dave Terry wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I recently installed RedHat 7, update 2 on a new Dell machine. Tonight I
> > bought an IBM PC Camera after seeing that the default kernel had already
> > provided ibmcam.o as a module.
> >
> > I can 'modprobe ibmcam' with no problems (it's there when I run lsmod),
> > but when I start xawtv I get the following:
> >
> > ----- begin xawtv output -----
> >
> > This is xawtv-3.18, running on Linux/i686 (2.2.17-14)
> > visual: id=0x21 class=4 (TrueColor), depth=24
> > visual: id=0x22 class=5 (DirectColor), depth=24
> > visual: id=0x23 class=4 (TrueColor), depth=24
> > visual: id=0x24 class=4 (TrueColor), depth=24
> > visual: id=0x25 class=4 (TrueColor), depth=24
> > visual: id=0x26 class=4 (TrueColor), depth=24
> > visual: id=0x27 class=4 (TrueColor), depth=24
> > visual: id=0x28 class=4 (TrueColor), depth=24
> > visual: id=0x29 class=4 (TrueColor), depth=24
> > visual: id=0x2a class=5 (DirectColor), depth=24
> > visual: id=0x2b class=5 (DirectColor), depth=24
> > visual: id=0x2c class=5 (DirectColor), depth=24
> > visual: id=0x2d class=5 (DirectColor), depth=24
> > visual: id=0x2e class=5 (DirectColor), depth=24
> > visual: id=0x2f class=5 (DirectColor), depth=24
> > visual: id=0x30 class=5 (DirectColor), depth=24
> >   image format list for port 49
> >     0x32595559 (YUY2) packed
> >     0x32315659 (YV12) planar
> >     0x59565955 (UYVY) packed
> >     0x30323449 (I420) planar
> > Xv: using port 49 for hw scaling
> > x11: 1280x1024, 32 bit/pixel, 5120 byte/scanline, DGA
> > can't open /dev/video: No such device
> > waitpid: No child processes
> > v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
> > open /dev/video: No such device
> > can't open /dev/video: No such device
> > waitpid: No child processes
> > v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
> > open /dev/video: No such device
> > no video grabber device available
> >
> > ----- end xawtv output -----
> >
> > Can anyone provide any insight regarding why it doesn't see my camera?
> > I've never used USB for anything else, so I'm not sure if I might have a
> > USB problem or not (the usbcore and usb-uhci modules are loaded by
> > default).
> >
> > This camera is FCC ID: KSX-X9907. Also, /dev/video is crwxrwxrwx.
>
>
> You may be able to use the CVS ibmcam driver. Go to
>
>       http://www.linux-usb.org/ibmcam/
>
> for details. Of course, this depends on which IBM camera you have... I
> don't see the FCC ID of your camera on the page, unfortunately.
>
>


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