With Mandrake 8.2 beta 3, the driver for my Philips PCVC680k webcam is not installed. This is also what happened with Mandrake 8.2 beta 2.
With Mandrake 8.1 the driver for the Philips webcam was installed at bootup, and /var/log/messages reported: Feb 22 17:06:06 kjohn kernel: usb-uhci.c: v1.251:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver Feb 22 17:06:06 kjohn kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x471/0x308) is not claimed by any active driver. Feb 22 17:06:06 kjohn kernel: Linux video capture interface: v1.00 Feb 22 17:06:06 kjohn kernel: pwc Philips PCA645/646 + PCVC675/680/690 + PCVC730/740/750 webcam module version 8.2 loaded. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ With Mandrake 8.2 beta three /var/log/messages reports: Feb 23 09:52:11 kjohn kernel: usb-uhci.c: ENXIO 80000280, flags 0, urb c6e9a6a0, burb c6e9a620 Feb 23 09:52:11 kjohn kernel: usb.c: error getting string descriptor 0 (error=-6) and Feb 23 09:52:11 kjohn kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout Feb 23 09:52:11 kjohn /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no modules for USB product 471/308/6 With Mandrake 8.2 beta 3 the Philips webcam driver does exist: file:/lib/modules/2.4.17-19mdk/kernel/drivers/usb/pwc.o.gz Also, with Mandrake 8.2 beta 3, DrakConf's HardDrake does detect the Philips PCVC680k WebCam. Please let me know if I can provide additional information to help locate the bug. -- John Kintree 4043 Delor Street St. Louis, MO 63116 314-351-7454
