--- "Brandon W. Saxe" <brandon20va@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Your webcam probably isn't at the default > /dev/video0. It isn't there > Try > $v4l-info /dev/video0 > to see what's at /dev/video0 It shows driver: bttv, card:BT878Video (LeadtekWinfast 20), bus_info: PCI:0000:00:06.0 > $v4l-info /dev/video1 > to see what's at /dev/video1 "open /dev/video1 :No such device " > You can keep querying /dev/video devices until you > get the right one for your quickcam. I queried v4l-info /dev/video*, but the qiockcam is NOT there. > Make sure that the usb device was found as well. > usbtree can be used, I think. You can also browse /proc/bus/usb to see if it's there. dmesg is your friend as well as /var/log/messages. I browsed /proc/bus/usb and found "Total 0" there. Further I queried : " $ cat /var/log/messages |grep video & the result is: drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usbfs drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hub drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver quickcam spca50x: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted. spca50x: no version magic, tainting kernel. drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver spca50x /opt/spca532-25052004/drivers/usb/spca50x.c: spca5xx driver 0.50 registered. " > once you found your webcam's /dev/video? location, > you can probably override the v4l device that's used by gnomemeeting or GIMP. I did : $ v4l-conf /dev/video1 & got : v4l-conf: using X11 display :0.0 dga: version 2.0 mode: 800x600, depth=24, bpp=32, bpl=3200, base=0xd7000000 /dev/video0 [v4l2]: configuration done . > For example, using xawtv, I have to do > $xawtv -c /dev/video1 I tried this and only TV display was there. Then # lsmod showed these modules : Module Size Used by spca50x 140832 0 quickcam 60596 0 usbcore 108468 2 spca50x,quickcam tuner 17428 0 bttv 148972 0 video_buf 22020 1 bttv i2c_algo_bit 9224 1 bttv v4l2_common 6656 1 bttv btcx_risc 5128 1 bttv i2c_core 22020 3 tuner,bttv,i2c_algo_bit videodev 9728 3 spca50x,quickcam,bttv I am confused with these messages.Any clues with these inputs, please. Murali __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail