usb/xawtv help needed

[Federico Voges]

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Hi,

Have you downloaded the latest version?? The one shipped with COL 3.1.1
doesn't work.

Bye.

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 21:19:08 -0700, Net Llama! wrote:

>Actually, i think i've made some progress.  The problem i'm running into 
>now is when i attempt to run xawtv, i see the following errors:
>v4l: open /dev/video0: No such device
>no video grabber device available
>
>[root at hal src]# ls -l /dev/video*
>lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            6 Nov 10 22:40 /dev/video -> video0
>crw-rw----    1 root     sys       81,   0 Feb  9 09:36 /dev/video0
>crw-rw----    1 root     sys       81,   1 Feb  9 09:36 /dev/video1
>
>[root at hal src]# lsmod
>Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
>videodev                2912   0
>usb-uhci               20964   0  (unused)
>usbcore                48000   0  [usb-uhci]
>
>So i'm a bit stumped at what else could be wrong here.  Anyone?
>
>
>Federico Voges wrote:
>> Sorry, wrong article. The one I mentioned is in the April issue and is
>> not available on-lien (unless you are a subscriber and have access to
>> LJ interactive).
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 21:57:06 -0300, Federico Voges wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Sorry for the delay. There's an article in this month issue of LJ about
>>>Linux Hotplug. Maybe you can find something usefull for your problem
>>>there:
>>>
>>>http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5633
>>>
>>>Bye
>>>
>>>On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:49:39 -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Mine is a PCVC690K.
>>>>
>>>>Federico Voges wrote:
>>>>
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>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>Which model is your camera?? I have a PCVC680K and I've made some tests
>>>>>with COL3.1.1. 
>>>>>I did it some time ago and the only thing that I remember about it is
>>>>>that I had to download a newer version of xawtv to make it work with my
>>>>>camera.
>>>>>
>>>>>Besides that, just followed the instructions from the driver's home
>>>>>page.
>>>>>
>>>>>Oh, I also downloaded the pwcx module from the driver's site.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:14:40 -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Greetings,
>>>>>>I've taken the plunge into the world of USB in linux, by purchasing a 
>>>>>>Philips USB webcam.  The cam is definitely supported under linux, so 
>>>>>>that's not my problem.  What i'm confused about is the entire process of 
>>>>>>'hotplugging'.  I read the material on linux-hotplug.sf.net, and it 
>>>>>>seems that i need to have some kind of hotplug init script in order to 
>>>>>>run a hotplug daemon at bootup.  My problem is that i can't find where 
>>>>>>to get such an init script anywhere.  Also, i'm not clear on where or 
>>>>>>how i setup the hotplug binary to act as a daemon.
>
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