Re: [Sheflug] Webcam with Mandrake 9.1?

[James Wallbank <james [at] xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Again All,

Gotcha! The answer is simple - re-initialise devfsd to pick up the
camera.

su
/etc/init.d/devfsd restart
exit
wmwebcam &

I've noticed that with this webcam you get a little preview window if
you run twm, but not if you run (hardcore users gasp in horror...) KDE.

Cheers,

James
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(Hmmm... Replying to your own posts... the first sign of madness?)

On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 17:43, James Wallbank wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I successfully connected an se401-based webcam (a Kensigton, as I
> remember) to a Mandrake 8.2 box running wmwebcam.
> 
> It worked! But now I'm trying the same thing with Mandrake 9.1 and I'm
> getting the message "video4linux error cannot access /dev/video"
> 
> I've checked permissions. /dev/video is a world-readable symlink
> pointing to /dev/v4l/video (or something similar - whatever it's
> actually called it's in a subdirectory called v4l, which sounds
> encouraging!).
> 
> I've listed the running modules and se401 is loaded - so is usb-video
> and usb-uhci, which I think are needed. I've tried removing and
> reinserting the modules, but I can't get the webcam led, which flashes
> when the se401 module is inserted, to actually light up.
> 
> I'm sure I'm missing something... any ideas?
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> James
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