On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > so the driver found it. > what is the ouput of the following commands: > ls -o /dev/.devfsd
ls: /dev/.devfsd: No such file or directory > ls -o /dev/video* crw------- 1 gemini 81, 0 Oct 5 12:46 /dev/video0 crw------- 1 gemini 81, 1 Oct 5 12:46 /dev/video1 crw------- 1 gemini 172, 0 Oct 5 12:46 /dev/video1394 crw------- 1 gemini 81, 2 Oct 5 12:46 /dev/video2 crw------- 1 gemini 81, 3 Oct 5 12:46 /dev/video3 crw------- 1 gemini 81, 4 Oct 5 12:46 /dev/video4 crw------- 1 gemini 81, 5 Oct 5 12:46 /dev/video5 crw------- 1 gemini 81, 6 Oct 5 12:46 /dev/video6 crw------- 1 gemini 81, 7 Oct 5 12:46 /dev/video7 /dev/video: total 0 crw------- 1 gemini 10, 204 Oct 5 12:46 em8300 crw------- 1 gemini 10, 206 Oct 5 12:46 em8300_ma crw------- 1 gemini 10, 205 Oct 5 12:46 em8300_mv crw------- 1 gemini 10, 207 Oct 5 12:46 em8300_sp > cat /proc/video/* (or is it /proc/v4l/* ? i do not rember) cat /proc/video/dev/video0 name : OV511 USB Camera type : VID_TYPE_CAPTURE hardware : 0x1b cat /proc/video/ov511/0/info driver_version : v2.25 custom_id : 21 model : Creative Labs WebCam 3 streaming : no grabbing : no can_decompress : yes compress : no subcapture : no sub_size : 0 0 0 0 brightness : 2 colour : 0 contrast : 0 hue : 0 exposure : 0 num_frames : 2 frame : 0 depth : 0 size : 0 0 format : Unknown data_buffer : 0x00000000 frame : 1 depth : 0 size : 0 0 format : Unknown data_buffer : 0x00000000 snap_enabled : no bridge : OV511+ sensor : Unknown packet_size : 0 framebuffer : 0x00000000 packet_numbering: 1 topology : usb-00:07.2-1 i2c_adap_id : 0 input : 0 0 camsource says Unable to open /dev/video0 (No such device) ls -l /dev/video0 crw------- 1 gemini video 81, 0 Oct 5 12:46 /dev/video0 (Also tried making the permissions 777, no luck). Xinerama gaves a similar error message.
