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lastlogin@gmail.com

2005-04-08, 5:46 pm

i`m runing a FC2 and i have 2 webcams, one philips and one omnivision
i try to make`it run in my box, i downloaded an install many aplycation
and folow all steps from all tutorials still same eror:

can't open /dev/video0: No such device or address

pls give me an ideea

thx

Dirk Wendland

2005-04-09, 7:45 am

lastlogin@gmail.com wrote:

> i`m runing a FC2 and i have 2 webcams, one philips and one omnivision
> i try to make`it run in my box, i downloaded an install many aplycation
> and folow all steps from all tutorials still same eror:
>
> can't open /dev/video0: No such device or address
>
> pls give me an ideea
>
> thx



what models do you have ?

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lastlogin@gmail.com

2005-04-10, 5:46 pm

one is philips PCVC 820K
and second is PC CAMERA REV. M2.01 OmniVision

nospam@all.please.net

2005-04-10, 8:45 pm

On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 10:41:22 -0700, lastlogin@gmail.com wrote:

> i`m runing a FC2 and i have 2 webcams, one philips and one omnivision
> i try to make`it run in my box, i downloaded an install many aplycation
> and folow all steps from all tutorials still same eror:
>
> can't open /dev/video0: No such device or address
>
> pls give me an ideea
>
> thx


It might be a permissions thing. See "man hotplug" .

Dirk Wendland

2005-04-11, 7:46 am

lastlogin@gmail.com wrote:

> one is philips PCVC 820K

ok the Philips should work with module pwc and pwcx

http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/

pwc is on you're pc ( most )

as root:
modprobe pwc
modprobe pwcx

> and second is PC CAMERA REV. M2.01 OmniVision


and there is a side for omnivision models

http://alpha.dyndns.org/ov511/

you can look if a driver for you're cam is there

Greetings
Dirk
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A Tool for c-c++ / Java / html / php
http://dirk-wendland.de.vu
lastlogin@gmail.com

2005-04-18, 7:45 am

[root@pc04 root]# xawtv
This is xawtv-3.94, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.5-1.358)
can't open /dev/video0: Function not implemented
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
v4l2: open /dev/video0: Function not implemented
v4l2: open /dev/video0: Function not implemented
v4l: open /dev/video0: Function not implemented
no video grabber device available
no video grabber device available
[root@pc04 root]#dmesg
...................
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: USB OV518+ video device found
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: Device revision 0
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: Compression required with OV518...enabling
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: Sensor is an OV7620
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: Device at usb-0000:00:01.3-1 registered to
minor 0
usbcore: registered new driver ov511
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: v1.64 for Linux 2.5 : ov511 USB Camera
Driver
................
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: No decompressor available
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: No decompressor available
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: No decompressor available
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: No decompressor available
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: No decompressor available
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: No decompressor available
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: No decompressor available
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: No decompressor available
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: No decompressor available
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: No decompressor available
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: No decompressor available
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: No decompressor available
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: No decompressor available
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: No decompressor available
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: No decompressor available
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: No decompressor available
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: No decompressor available
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: No decompressor available
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: No decompressor available
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: No decompressor available
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: No decompressor available
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: No decompressor available
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: No decompressor available
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: No decompressor available
[root@pc04 ov511-2.28]#uname -a
Linux pc04.utilservices.iasi.rdsnet.ro 2.6.5-1.358 #1 Sat May 8
09:04:50 EDT 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
[root@pc04 ov511-2.28]#
using ov511-2.28 driver and xawtv-3.94
pls give me some hints

thx

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