Re: ov511 video cam
On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 16:24, Jamin W.Collins wrote:
> On 26 Apr 2002 12:38:16 -0400
> "Scott Henson" <shenson2@wvu.edu> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 09:25, Jamin W.Collins wrote:
> > > On 26 Apr 2002 02:39:29 -0400
> > > "Scott Henson" <shenson2@wvu.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I am trying to get my Ezonics webcam to work under linux. I have
> > > > figured out that it uses the ov511 driver. It is usb and I keep
> > > > trying to get it to work, but no program I use seems to work. I
> > > > keep getting an error about no such device.
> > >
> > > What is the ouptput of 'ls -l /dev/video*'?
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root video 6 Apr 26 01:17 /dev/video ->
> > video0
> > crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 0 Apr 26 02:32 /dev/video0
> > crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 1 Apr 26 01:17 /dev/video1
> >
> > there are more but they all follow this same pattern.
>
> I assume that you're not running the programs that you've attempted as
> "root", right? based on the permissions provided, that leaves the "video"
> group. Is the user you've attempted running the programs as a member of
> the video group? If you're not sure, running "groups <user>" should tell
> you what groups the user belongs to. Based on the above permissions, only
> the user "root" and members of "video" can access the video* devices. So,
> either add the user to the "video" group or change the permissions of the
> device to allow others (aka world) read/write access.
I am running it as user shenson2 and shenson2 is a member of the video
group.
shenson2@sandm:~$ gqcam
/dev/video: No such device
and as you can see above, the device node does exist. Also the cam is
pluged in and the module is loaded. I also loaded the cpia module just
in case and it still wont work. Not even root can start anything
relating to the cam. Thanks for the help so far, but any other ideas?
Thanks.
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