Re: udev rules for webcam

2014-11-07 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 03:20:20PM -0500, Kevin Cummings wrote: > On 11/06/2014 06:53 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 18:47:23 -0500 > > Fred Smith wrote: > > > >> not finding anything on that, I hit on writing a udev rule for the > >> USB device to make sure it appeared as a predict

Re: udev rules for webcam

2014-11-07 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 11/06/2014 06:53 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 18:47:23 -0500 > Fred Smith wrote: > >> not finding anything on that, I hit on writing a udev rule for the >> USB device to make sure it appeared as a predictable /dev/video. Did you try looking in /dev/v4l? My laptop builtin webcam

Re: udev rules for webcam

2014-11-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 18:47:23 -0500 Fred Smith wrote: > not finding anything on that, I hit on writing a udev rule for the > USB device to make sure it appeared as a predictable /dev/video. I did something similar to recognize my 3D printer when I plug it in, and it was quite challenging to make al

udev rules for webcam

2014-11-06 Thread Fred Smith
Hi all! I've got an old eeepc 901 set up with Fedora 20, in a captive situation where it operates a USB web cam (not the built-in one, but something a good deal better, though modestly priced) snapping an image once per minute. Unfortunately, on the rare occasions when the eeepc gets rebooted, th