Webcam and FC3

[deja.10....@spamgourmet.com]

Ok, I have read and tried everything I could, but it still isn't
working. I'm pretty new to installing drivers on linux.

I added these lines to the /etc/modprobe.conf file:
alias char-major-10-250 sonypi
options sonypi minor=250 fnkeyinit=1 camera=1
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 meye
options meye gbuffers=32 video_nr=0

The drivers that I assume I'll be using is:
/lib/modules/2.6.10-1.766_FC3/kernel/drivers/media/video/meye.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.10-1.766_FC3/kernel/drivers/char/sonypi.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.10-1.766_FC3/kernel/drivers/media/video/videodev.ko

I load the modules with:
#modprobe sonypi
#modprobe videodev
#modprobe meye

If I lsmod, I get:
Module Size Used by
meye 32537 0
videodev 9537 1 meye
sonypi 24729 1 meye

I've tried running module_upgrade at this point.

There isn't a /proc/video, or a /dev/video or /dev/video0, so I try the
following:
#mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0
#chmod 666 /dev/video0
#ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video

Finally, I run:
#xawtv -c /dev/video -geometry 320x240

And I get this:
This is xawtv-3.94, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.10-1.766_FC3)
can't open /dev/video: No such device
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
v4l2: open /dev/video: No such device
v4l2: open /dev/video: No such device
v4l: open /dev/video: No such device
no video grabber device available

Please Help!!!

[Timothy Murphy]

deja.10....@spamgourmet.com wrote:

> I added these lines to the /etc/modprobe.conf file:
> alias char-major-10-250 sonypi

While /usr/src/linux*/Documentation/sonypi.txt suggests this setting,
I noticed that the sonypi man suggested char-major-10-63 .
The latter seemed to work for me.

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