Simple problem with video not working under 2.6
Andrew Levin
I have recently come back to the computer after a long vacation and I
find that I am unable to get software to work for my Slack 10.2 HP
a1050y box running 2.6.16.18 as far as the webcam is concerned.
I was able to have some success on proior occasions (with earlier
kernels) with the 'qce-ga" driver (mod_quickcam.o). The camera in
question is a Logitech Quickcam color. In fact, I had a little
shellscript that, once all the modules were loaded, would dump a screen
grab to my www directory so I could run a dynamic web cam page with the
music I was listening to, weather of the place I live, and so on.
That took a little tweaking of Cory Lueninghoener's "gqcam", so the
color swap didn't mess things up.
Certainly I have had this problem before and overcome it but I do not
know how to. I have the quickcam driver selected as included in the new
kernel but it does say it is expirmental.
The machine recognizes it on startup:
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
Colour QuickCam for Video4Linux v0.05
However, when I run xawtv:
$ xawtv
This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.16.18)
WARNING: Your X-Server has no DGA support.
can't open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
v4l2: open /dev/video0: Permission denied
v4l2: open /dev/video0: Permission denied
v4l: open /dev/video0: Permission denied
no video grabber device available
Or gqcam:
$ gqcam
/dev/video: Permission denied
And to see the permissions are correct, the below. Can anyone help me?
A webcam would be great to make a starting point for a personal site,
for which I've just gotten two new domains. Many thanks!
$ ls -l /dev/video*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2006-05-25 22:16 /dev/video -> /dev/video0
crwxr-xr-x 1 root root 81, 0 2006-05-25 22:16 /dev/video0