hi altern according to this:
http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=3503 you need a driver called 'dkms-gspca'. roman On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 16:40 +0200, altern wrote: > hi > > i am trying to use a USB webcam with GEM on my IBM laptop with Ubuntu > Studio but pd gives me an error > > error: failed opening device '/dev/video0' > > the same camera runs perfectly on the same laptop under XP and also on > my desktop machine with Ubuntu Studio. All using the same patch and same > versions of PD and GEM. > > The camera is a logitech quickcam communicate STX > PD 0.39.3 extended-rc5 > Linux r2d2-desktop 2.6.20-16-lowlatency #2 SMP PREEMPT Fri Aug 31 > 00:58:46 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux > > The camera seems to be recognised, if i plug it on i can see the > camera's blue light flashing and dmesg gives this : > > [27776.980572] ubuntu/media/gspcav1/gspca_core.c: USB SPCA5XX camera > found.(ZC3XX) > > same message as in the desktop machine. > > Comparing the PD output from both machines i can see that after saying > > - GEM start rendering > my desktop says : > - v4l::thread starting > but the laptop says: > - error: failed opening device '/dev/video0' > > i searched with synaptic for v4l and compared all stuff installed in > both machines just in case i was missing some library in the laptop, but > it is exactly the same in both... > > my bet is that some module is missing, but i dont know which ones might > be as i havent mess around with modules very much so far, i am comparing > the lsmod from the desktop and laptop at the moment, there are few > differences but i dont really know where to start from, any one has any > idea? > > thanks! > > enrike > > > _______________________________________________ > PD-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list ___________________________________________________________ Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de
_______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list