[TriLUG] Logitech QuickCam - no video device found

[Timothy A. Chagnon]

Yeah, you shouldn't have to load those manually.  Here's a cleaned up
syslog output from just plugging in the camera in case you're
interested:

kernel: usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
kernel: Linux video capture interface: v1.00 kernel:
drivers/usb/media/spca5xx/spca5xx-core.c: USB SPCA5XX camera
found.Logitech QuickCam chat (SPCA561A)
kernel: usbcore: registered new driver spca5xx kernel:
drivers/usb/media/spca5xx/spca5xx-core.c: spca5xx driver 00.57.02
registered
usb.agent: spca5xx: loaded successfully

I'm not up on my hotplug/udev whatnot, except to ask if you've got
udevd in your process list (you already mentioned 2.6 kernel).  But
that's seems to be where your problem is.

A little looking says try running usbmodules to see if it reports the
correct module for the plugged in device.  If not, that man page says
use depmod to update /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/modules.usbmap

Glad to be some help!
Tim

On 1/18/06, William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:
> 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!
>