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Re: /dev/video absent



Hello folks,
I am reposting my problem again.. I am hoping to get a
webcam (a TV tuner card later) working on a
Debian/Unstable box with 2.6.17-1-486 kernel and
evga's graphics card with nVidia GForce 6600LE
chipset.

The webcam in concern is a Logitech Quickcam IM. The
material I dug up from the net says to compile a
certain driver against the kernel headers.

But there are no /dev/video* devices. I have put the
v4l module (videodev) using modconf. lsmod gives the
following list:

Module                  Size  Used by
quickcam               91336  0
smbfs                  55800  0
usbvideo               23812  0
c_qcam                 11160  0
compat_ioctl32          1408  2 usbvideo,c_qcam
videodev                8832  3
quickcam,usbvideo,c_qcam
uhci_hcd               19464  0
nls_cp437               5888  0
vfat                   11520  0
fat                    45852  1 vfat
sd_mod                 18448  0
usb_storage            69952  0
nls_iso8859_1           4224  1
isofs                  31672  1
udf                    71812  0
appletalk              30384  2
ax25                   46168  2
ipx                    23084  2
p8023                   2176  1 ipx
binfmt_misc            10376  1
speedstep_lib           4484  0
freq_table              4356  0
ipv6                  210784  17
button                  6544  0
ac                      4868  0
battery                 9220  0
dm_mod                 48568  0
ide_generic             1408  0 [permanent]
mousedev               10400  1
tsdev                   7360  0
snd_ens1371            22432  1
gameport               13448  1 snd_ens1371
snd_rawmidi            21792  1 snd_ens1371
snd_seq_device          7692  1 snd_rawmidi
snd_pcm_oss            35616  0
snd_mixer_oss          15616  1 snd_pcm_oss
psmouse                34184  0
snd_intel8x0           29596  2
snd_ac97_codec         82336  2
snd_ens1371,snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_bus            2304  1 snd_ac97_codec
8250_pnp                8704  0
evdev                   8960  1
i2c_nforce2             6656  0
serio_raw               6276  0
pcspkr                  2816  0
i2c_core               19216  1 i2c_nforce2
snd_pcm                71432  4
snd_ens1371,snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer              19716  1 snd_pcm
snd                    45668  15
snd_ens1371,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               8800  1 snd
parport_pc             31396  0
parport                31944  2 c_qcam,parport_pc
rtc                    11444  0
snd_page_alloc          9480  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
floppy                 52868  0
ext3                  114952  1
jbd                    45588  1 ext3
ide_cd                 35104  1
cdrom                  32288  1 ide_cd
ide_disk               14976  3
sata_nv                 9220  0
libata                 60300  1 sata_nv
scsi_mod              120840  3
sd_mod,usb_storage,libata
ohci_hcd               17412  0
ehci_hcd               26888  0
amd74xx                12700  0 [permanent]
usbcore               108544  7
quickcam,usbvideo,uhci_hcd,usb_storage,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
generic                 4356  0 [permanent]
ide_core              107940  6
usb_storage,ide_generic,ide_cd,ide_disk,amd74xx,generic
forcedeth              25228  0
thermal                12680  0
processor              21440  1 thermal
fan                     4484  0

-----------------

udev seems to take care of the devices... when i try
to "MAKEDEV video", i get the following message..

udev active, devices will be created in
/dev/.static/dev/

yes there are all sorts of device files in that
directory with access only to root. 

So what should i do?
thanks in advacne
kruton.

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