well, i'm mostly Ubuntu user, and due on a kernel conflict, i got no webcam (no gspca and no everything else) since october 2008 - i think everybody with updated gnu/linux kernel is getting this problem as well
maybe it's happening on dyne:bolic as well... On 3/9/09, adrian goya <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello to all. > > I am running leek&potato from a liveCD. I´m trying to use unibrain's fire-i > firewire board > camera<http://www.unibrain.com/Products/VisionImg/Fire_i_BC.htm>with > pix_video inside pure-data/GEM for a video installation. > > When I send a [driver 1( message and then [device /dev/video1394/0( > to pix_video i get : > > initializing: Inappropriate ioctl for device > > If I send [driver 0( message I get > > get capabilities: Inappropriate ioctl for device > > This camera works under coriander no problem. I use it with openFrameworks > also. It doesn't work with dvgrab. > > A sony minidv firewire camera does work with pix_video however. > > Does anyone have any idea how to fix this? I've searched the mail archives > and every resource I could think of. I'm new to linux so maybe I'm missing > some basic stuff. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > thanks > > ciao. > --- [email protected] irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne
