[TriLUG] Logitech QuickCam - no video device found

[William Sutton]

Hmmmm....had not realized that I needed to load the spca5xx as a module.  
Once I did modprobe spca5xx (and validated that it loaded through lsmod), 
gqcam worked.

Thanks!

-- 
William Sutton


On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Timothy A. Chagnon wrote:

> I'll check what my syslog output looks like when I get home, but I'm
> pretty sure it's more than those two lines.
> 
> So, if you don't have the camera plugged in, and don't have the
> spca5xx or videodev modules inserted, then plug the camera in, do both
> modules get inserted / show up in lsmod?
> 
> Oh, I also remembered... maybe try the commands v4l-info, v4l-conf,
> v4lctl.  See if those can access the camera.
> 
> On 1/18/06, William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:
> > latest (not stable) version of spca5xx; I would guess if yours works, mine
> > should work.  The problem seems to be a disconnect between the video
> > device and the hardware!?  Is that the spca5xx layer, or (my guess) the
> > videodev layer?
> >
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