I have no /proc/video directory, and no video entry in my /proc, the v4l is
a module, would that affect this, or maybe version dependant? (Debian 3.0,
2.4.18)

Thanks
Arron


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lucas Correia Villa Real" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: [V4L] vicam Webcam driver


> You can try to cat /proc/video/dev/video0:
>
> $ cat /proc/video/dev/video0
> name            : BT878(Hauppauge (bt878))
> type            :
VID_TYPE_CAPTURE|VID_TYPE_TUNER|VID_TYPE_TELETEXT|VID_TYPE_OVERLAY
> hardware        : 0x1
>
>
> Lucas
>
>
> On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 18:19:03 -0400
> "Arron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > The dev/video is linked to video0, this i did find in
> > http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x370.html
> > which is some of the documentation i have found. As for xawtv, i am only
> > running in console mode to keep it simple and mainly run as a
> > server/firewall. Let me know if im off some on this.
> > And is there some way to see what /dev/video0 is connected to? In your
xawtv
> > you have /dev/video0 OK then the information on the device, what would
be
> > the console command? (cat /proc/bus/usb/devices has the camera listed,
but
> > how do i list what video0 is?)
> >
> > Thanks
> > Arron
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Stephen Crampton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 5:49 PM
> > Subject: Re: [V4L] vicam Webcam driver
> >
> >
> > > > devices, loads the modules it needs, and I made the /dev/video
linked
> > > > to /dev/video0 and the light comes on the cam. Any capture app I run
> > >
> > > This sounds peculiar.  On my system, /dev/video is a directory and so
> > > could not be made to link elsewhere.  With some programs, you need to
> > > specify the video device as /dev/video0.  I recall at least one
program
> > > had a problem where I had to edit the source code to change the
default
> > > video device.
> > >
> > > Try the following:
> > >
> > > xawtv -hwscan
> > >
> > >
> > > Here's what I get:
> > >
> > > [stevec@doogles dev]$ xawtv -hwscan
> > > This is xawtv-3.54, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.9-34)
> > > looking for available devices
> > > port 76-76
> > >     type : Xvideo, image scaler
> > >     name : NV10 Video Overlay
> > > port 77-108
> > >     type : Xvideo, image scaler
> > >     name : NV05 Video Blitter
> > > /dev/video0: OK
> > >     type : v4l
> > >     name : OV511+ USB Camera
> > >     flags:  capture
> > > [stevec@doogles dev]$
> > >
> > >
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