Hello List ! Sorry to bother you again, but with fresher errors.I downloaded the driver for Logitech QUICKCAM EXPRESS from the site : http://qce-ga.sourceforge.net.Then after extracting I ran the script "quickcam.sh" and the following are the messages I got.It seems that the problem lies with detection of the device.When I do an ls -l /dev/video0 and it displays the major,minor nos. as 81 & 0 and /dev/video as 81 & 1.I removed the file hwconf and ran "kudzu".It detects the USB controller as "desc: "VIA Technologies|VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller" .Now the result of quickcam.sh follows : 'Now everything should be well and the driver compiled. Let's then try actually loading the fresh driver and testing if it works. Press Ctrl+C to quit, Enter to continue ---> To load the driver, I need to know the root password. === Entering root mode === I will now try to enable the SysRq key. If your computer crashes, you can try pressing: Alt + SysRq + S: Emergency Sync (write everything on hard disk) Alt + SysRq + U: Unmount all harddisks Alt + SysRq + B: Reboot system immediately Press Ctrl+C to quit, Enter to continue ---> Now I finally will try to load the module. If you're unlucky, your computer might crash right now!!!! Consider long if you really want to continue. Press Ctrl+C to quit, Enter to continue ---> You decided to do it, here we go... === Leaving root mode === The driver detected the following supported cameras: [!] No cameras detected. Try unloading and reloading the driver manually with rmmod quickcam; insmod ./quickcam.ko debug=-1 and then checking whether there are any messages indicating problems with command dmesg WARNING: I'll try to continue anyway, but this probably will fail. Press Ctrl+C to quit, Enter to continue ---> I will be using , if there are more cameras I'll not test them. Press Ctrl+C to quit, Enter to continue ---> Testing if is correct. ls: : No such file or directory ls: : No such file or directory ./quickcam.sh: line 547: [: too many arguments ls: : No such file or directory ls: : No such file or directory [!] major number is . Usually it should be 81, so there are problems ahead. WARNING: I'll try to continue anyway, but this probably will fail. Press Ctrl+C to quit, Enter to continue ---> Right now driver is loaded and ready to run. If you like, you can quit now and start using the camera - you have good chances that it works, if no problems were detected. If you have X Window System running and xawtv installed, I can now run it automatically for you. You will then also have opportunity to install the driver permanently. Press Ctrl+C to quit, Enter to continue ---> Launching xawtv (press q on xawtv window to quit it)... xawtv -noscale -noxv -c "" This is xawtv-3.92, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.5-1.358) v4l-conf: option requires an argument -- c usage: v4l-conf [ options ] options: -q quiet -d <dpy> X11 Display [:0.0] -c <dev> video device [/dev/video0] -b <n> displays color depth is <n> bpp -s <n> shift display by <n> bytes -f query frame buffer device for info -a <addr> set framebuffer address to <addr> (in hex, root only, successful autodetect will overwrite this address) -1 force v4l API -2 force v4l2 API v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway v4l2: open : No such file or directory v4l2: open : No such file or directory v4l: open : No such file or directory no video grabber device available Well, did it work, did you get a picture? If you did, you might now want to install the driver permanently. Just proceed to do that... Press Ctrl+C to quit, Enter to continue ---> Just an extra warning: the driver (quickcam.ko) and the utility (qcset) will be now copied into system directories. If you have already other versions, they will be overwritten. Verify by giving root password. === Entering root mode === /usr/bin/install -c -D -m 644 quickcam.ko /lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/misc/quickcam.ko /usr/bin/install -c -D -m 755 qcset /usr/local/bin/qcset /sbin/depmod -a === Leaving root mode === Hopefully the driver is now installed and can be loaded with command modprobe quickcam as root. You can put this command into some startup script to do it always automatically at boot. The exact location depends on distribution, and this script is yet too dumb to do this automatically. Press Ctrl+C to quit, Enter to continue ---> Goodbye... ' Then I did the following : [root@muralinux qc-usb-0.6.0]# modprobe quickcam [root@muralinux qc-usb-0.6.0]# lsmod Module Size Used by quickcam 59060 0 ohci_hcd 14748 0 uhci_hcd 23708 0 tuner 15380 0 bttv 129292 0 video_buf 14468 1 bttv i2c_algo_bit 7304 1 bttv v4l2_common 4864 1 bttv btcx_risc 3592 1 bttv i2c_core 16388 3 tuner,bttv,i2c_algo_bit videodev 6656 2 quickcam,bttv --------------------------------------------- Could anyone help me to provide clue to unravelling this problem ? Thanks. Murali __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
