On Thursday 29 December 2005 23:03, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 19:36:43 +0100, Francois Massonneau wrote:
> > On Thursday 29 December 2005 19:17, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
> >> > I'm trying to install a webcam, and from what I read, I have to
> >> > check a device named "video0", or ("video" which is a simple link to
> >> > video0). But inside my /dev directory, I have no video? file(s) at
> >> > all. How do I do to create one ? I run Fedora Core 4.
> >>
> >> mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0
> >
> > No, that's not the right way imho. Each time I reboot the machine, that
> > device disapears and I have to recreate it.
> >
> > I read lots of messages about that, and the latest I've found says to
> > create a /etc/udev/rules.d/06-dvb.rules file and to add the following
> > lines:
> >
> > KERNEL="dvb*", PROGRAM="/etc/udev/scripts/dvb.sh %k", NAME="%c"
> > SYSFS{vendor}="0x109e", PROGRAM="/etc/udev/scripts/dvb.sh %k",
> > NAME="video0"
> >
> > As the card is a Pinnacle Dv500, I changed the 0x109e to 0x104c, as it
> > seems it's the vendor id of my card, but again, it's doesn't work ;-(
>
> Wait a minute! What card are you talking about? Your original post was
> about a webcam. And earlier you posted something about a Logitech
> Quickcam. Is that not USB?
yes, you are right. The explanation is the following : As I saw the driver I
tried to use with the webcam (and I have reports that say it does with such
webcam) didn't create the appropriate device (video0), I thought it would
be a good idea to add a card I had there (the pinnacle dv500) to that
computer and see if that could create the video device. But narda, nothing.
So I removed the card, deleted the file 06-dvb.rules I created, and kept
only my webcam plugs in one of the two usb entry.
So I'm back at the beginning, with the webcam which doesn't work.
Francois
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