Quoting Madhusudan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> > It looks like you are running these programs as root so that shouldn't
> > be the problem, but you might need to change the permissions on
> > /dev/video* for normal users to get at those devices
> 
> Yes that is not the problem. My quickcam express is not working in a
> similar way :

The IBM camera driver just does this:

static int video_nr = -1;

if (video_register_device(&uvd->vdev, VFL_TYPE_GRABBER,video_nr) == -1) {
   err("%s: video_register_device failed", proc);
   return -EPIPE;
}
if (uvd->debug > 1) {
   info("%s: video_register_device() successful", proc);
}
if (uvd->dev == NULL) {
   err("%s: uvd->dev == NULL", proc);
   return -EINVAL;
}
info("%s on /dev/video%d: canvas=%s videosize=%s",
     (uvd->handle != NULL) ? uvd->handle->drvName : "???",
     uvd->vdev.minor, tmp2, tmp1);

So if the device registration is successful then I guess videodev.o should
handle open() and other callbacks into the registered driver. If it
doesn't then it is broken, I suppose.

Dmitri

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