frustrated webcam help.
something got half installed in an upgrade the other day, borked
apt-get, & i had to remove a bunch of testing stuff which didn't seem
necessary. (isn't that always the way?) so i thought i'd reinstalled it
all /stable, but my webcam has quit working. it's a philips logitech
quickcam pro, & it's been perfectly happy with the pwc module from
salliard.org, but... yeah. help, please. highly frustrated over here.
bottom line, /dev/video0 doesn't exist & won't create. but the
module loads properly, usb works fine, layer 1's all checked. i even went
through the webcam howto, but it's unhelpful.
compunction:/root# modprobe pwc
pwc: Philips webcam module version 10.0.13 loaded.
pwc: Supports Philips PCA645/646, PCVC675/680/690, PCVC720[40]/730/740/750
& PCVC830/840.
pwc: Also supports the Askey VC010, various Logitech Quickcams, Samsung
MPC-C10
and MPC-C30,
pwc: the Creative WebCam 5 & Pro Ex, SOTEC Afina Eye and Visionite
VCS-UC300 and VCS-UM100.
usbcore: registered new interface driver Philips webcam
compunction:/root# ls /dev/video*
ls: cannot access /dev/video*: No such file or directory
compunction:/root# webcam
reading config file: /root/.webcamrc
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
v4l: open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
no grabber device available
i'm running 2.6.25, but it was working fine before a bunch of
broken stuff tried to install. yay apt-get. motion is one of the packages
that won't upgrade, & i had to reinstall it to stable. libavutil49
libavformat52 are two more it tried to screw with which don't have stable
versions. i'm guessing somewhere in there i accidentally rm'd some stupid
50k thing which is critical, but hell if i can find it. anyhow, thanks in
advance for any help.
lish
crank@got.net
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