I used the method outlined here (http://groups.google.com/group/ microdia/web/testing-microdia-driver-draft?hl=en), and everything seemed to work fine until I got to the part about mplayer testing. It did not work as expected.
++++++++ MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ (Family: 15, Model: 35, Stepping: 2) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing tv://. TV file format detected. Selected driver: v4l2 name: Video 4 Linux 2 input author: Martin Olschewski <[email protected]> comment: first try, more to come ;-) v4l2: unable to open '/dev/video0': No such file or directory v4l2: ioctl set mute failed: Bad file descriptor v4l2: 0 frames successfully processed, 0 frames dropped. Exiting... (End of file) ++++++++++ I made the mistake of installing the microdia driver permanently, and now on dmesg I get a whole lot of repeating ++ [ 1437.710076] sn9c20x: SN9C20X USB 2.0 Webcam releases control of video device /dev/video0 [ 1437.710081] sn9c20x: Read register failed 0x1005 [ 1437.710083] sn9c20x: Read register failed 0x1005 [ 1437.710085] sn9c20x: Read register failed 0x1005 [ 1437.710087] sn9c20x: Read register failed 0x1005 [ 1437.710089] sn9c20x: Read register failed 0x1005 [ 1437.710091] sn9c20x: Read register failed 0x1005 [ 1437.710093] sn9c20x: Read register failed 0x1005 [ 1437.710095] sn9c20x: Read register failed 0x1005 [ 1437.710097] sn9c20x: Read register failed 0x1005 [ 1437.710098] sn9c20x: Read register failed 0x1005 [ 1437.710100] sn9c20x: Read register failed 0x1005 [ 1437.710102] sn9c20x: Read register failed 0x1005 [ 1437.710104] sn9c20x: Read register failed 0x1005 [ 1437.710106] sn9c20x: Read register failed 0x1005 [ 1437.710108] sn9c20x: Read register failed 0x1005 [ 1437.710110] sn9c20x: Read register failed 0x1005 [ 1437.710112] sn9c20x: Read register failed 0x1005 [ 1437.710114] sn9c20x: Read register failed 0x1005 [ 1437.710115] sn9c20x: Read register failed 0x1005 [ 1437.710117] sn9c20x: Read register failed 0x1005 ++ What should I try to do to make this work? Thanks Craig --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Lets make microdia webcams plug'n play, (currently plug'n pray) To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Visit us online https://groups.google.com/group/microdia -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
