Thanks. It worked on the development branch. Free of Vista again! (not that
it didn't take there either).

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype

worked as well. Hoorah.

Thanks,
ben

2008/12/5 GWater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> JoJo jojo schrieb:
>
>  Hi Ben
>>
>> you forgot to do
>> # modprobe videodev
>> then /dev/video[n] will get created correctly
>>
>> try it ;-)
>>
>> -JoJo
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying the same thing, without success. I'm running Ubuntu
>>> Intrepid.
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm trying to follow the instructions at
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/microdia/web/testing-microdia-driver-draft
>>>
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/forays/webcam/microdia$ make clean all
>>> ...
>>>  LD [M]  /home/ben/forays/webcam/microdia/microdia.ko
>>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-10-generic'
>>> ctags: no input files specified.
>>>       Try `ctags --help' for a complete list of options.
>>> make: *** [ctags] Error 1
>>>
>>> hmm. According to this thread here it is all ok:
>>>
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/microdia/browse_thread/thread/709160c0ded023b6
>>>
>>> So I continue:
>>> $ sudo insmod ./microdia.ko
>>> insmod: error inserting './microdia.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module
>>>
>>> Try as per the thread says
>>> $ sudo modprobe compat_ioctl32
>>> $ sudo insmod ./microdia.ko
>>>
>>> but camorama complains of there not being a /dev/video0. Taking the
>>> thread's instructions,
>>> sudo depmod -a
>>> sudo mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0
>>> sudo chmod 777 /dev/video0
>>>
>>> but camorama is still complaining it can't find it. And the following
>>> doesn't work either:
>>> mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420:fps=30
>>>
>>>
>>> I also tried the
>>> git checkout --track -b development origin/development
>>> suggestion, but insmod gave the same error:
>>> insmod: error inserting './microdia.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> ben
>>>
>>
>> >>
>>
> And for camorama you will need to use the following line:
>
> $ LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libv4l/v4l1compat.so camorama
>
> GWater
>
>


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