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Im my expericene you may just want to symlink /dev/video to /dev/video0. I think anyway. One of the things about this ere reliable linux thing is that generally you only need to set things up once :) On Thu, 16 May 2002, Adrian Midgley wrote:
On Monday 29 April 2002 08:17, you wrote: OK, there was a quickcam being too cheap not to play with, and I needed some retail thereapy after discussing the proposed new GP contract. I did that, then lookd on the machine, mod_quickcam is part of SuSE 7.2's install. Did modprobe and it reports running but not in use. USB view shows the camera.... akm@xxxxxxx:~/sm > xawtv This is xawtv-3.43, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.4-64GB-SMP) x11: 1024x768, 16 bit/pixel, 2048 byte/scanline, DGA can't open /dev/video: No such device v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway open /dev/video: No such device v4l: open /dev/video: No such device no video grabber device available Now, is this just a matter of me making a symlink, or oes it reflect a lack of a config file, in which case any assistance, eg a copy of a working onw with location, would be gratefully received.
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