Re: [Ekiga-list] 'Video: No Device Found' [2.0.12]

[Adam Bogacki <afb paradise net nz>]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:14:30 +0200
Fabrice ALPHONSO <fabrice alphonso dyndns org> wrote

> Le jeudi 31 juillet 2008 ? 15:05 +1200, Adam Bogacki a ?crit :
> > Hi, I have been using Ekiga 2.0.12 on an Etch/unstable system -
> > previously recognising both audio & video devices.
> >
> > I recently saw reference to trying out snapshots  ..
> >
> > Carrying out the instructions at http://snapshots.ekiga.net/ I had
> a
> > look at it but decided it was
> > a bit too buggy to use at the moment, so apt-removed
> 'ekiga-snapshot' ..
> > but now find that
> > Ekiga 2.0.12 does not recognise video devices (Logitech Quickcam
> 'Chat'
> > or 'Go' models) .
> >
> > Any ideas for a fix ?
>
> I imagine that for installing ekiga-snapshot you also had to install
> ptlib and opal related packages. Are you sure that when you
> unsinstalled
> ekiga-snapshot you also cleaned everything related to ptlib and opal
> end
> reinstalled the correct version for those dependencies of ekiga
> version
> 2.0.12 ?
Yep. I've gone to great lengths to check that I have the right versions of
ptlib and opal (to the extent of reinstalling them).

However, when I run xawtv I get

> adam Tohunga:~$ xawtv
> This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.24-1-686)
> xinerama 0: 1280x1024+0+0
> can't open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
> v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
> 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 video grabber device available
> adam Tohunga:~$
It was previously working with v4l and
gspca-modules-2.6.25-2-686_2.6.25+01.00.20-2_i386.deb
Ekiga Preferences now tells me "No device found" ..

I have tried 'mknod /dev/video0 c 81' to no result .. I seem to be 
missing an operand after '81' ..

I have also created /etc/udev/rules.d/06-dvb.rules and added the 
following lines:

KERNEL="dvb*", PROGRAM="/etc/udev/scripts/dvb.sh %k", NAME="%c"
SYSFS{vendor}="0x109e", PROGRAM="/etc/udev/scripts/dvb.sh %k", 
NAME="video0"

.. and

edited /etc/udev/scripts/dvb.sh so thatk it has the following

#!/bin/sh
/bin/echo $1 | /bin/sed -e 
's,dvb\([0-9]\)\.\([^0-9]*\)\([0-9]\),dvb/adapter\1/\2\3,'

.. but Etch/Lenny tells me at login that they cannot be applied.

So /dev/video0 still wan't created by udev.

/var/log/messages gives me ..

> Aug  3 20:12:59 Tohunga kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter 
> Core Team
> Aug  3 20:12:59 Tohunga kernel: nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (6144 
> buckets, 24576 max)
> Aug  3 20:13:23 Tohunga kernel: eth0: Setting full-duplex based on 
> MII#1 link partner capability of 45e1.
> Aug  3 21:16:41 Tohunga kernel: Linux video capture interface: v2.00
Searching by 'udev' I get

> Jul 13 19:09:41 Tohunga kernel: [    9.620898] udevd version 124 started

.. and

> Tohunga:~# ls -la /dev/video
> ls: cannot access /dev/video: No such file or directory

What am I missing ?

Adam Bogacki,
afb paradise net nz