Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Logitech quickcam 4000 pro--no video device under Mandrake 9.0

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Hello,

I think (but Im not sure) that the Logitech Quickcam 4000 Pro is not
supported by the kernel in the Mandrake distribution, you need to
install a newer kernel and patch the sources using the driver found on
the Philip sLinux driver homepage.


Le jeu 23/01/2003 à 18:56, Andrew Carson a écrit :
> The sound portion of gnomemeeting came up and working out of the box for me 
> under Mandrake 9.0.  Subsequently I purchased a Logitech QuickCam 4000 Pro.  
> I can not get it to work with Gnomemeeting (or anything) under Mandrake 9.0.
> 
> Here is what I have done to try to make it work:
> 
> (1)  Installed Hotplug as recommended in Mandrake's instructions for 
> Gnomemeeting   
> (http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/doc/90c/en/EverydayApplications.html/video-apps.html)
> 
> (2) Used lsmod to see if PWC was loaded (It was not) (PWC is said to be the 
> driver for this webCam)
> 
> (3) Used modprobe to load PWC and verified  using lsmod that it was now 
> loaded.
> 
> (4) Used USBVIEW finding that the webcam is recognized as an unknown device, 
> not as a video device.
> 
> (5)Tried xawtv, getting this error message:
> 
> This is xawtv-3.76, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.19-16mdk)
> can't open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory
> v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
> v4l2: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory
> v4l: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory
> no video grabber device available
> 
> (6) Tried to run Gnomemeeting, getting the error message:
> 
>         
> 
>     error while opening /dev/video1, channel 0
> 
> (7)  resetting the Gnomemeeting video device to video0 results in a similar 
> error message.
> 
> (8) Used the "find file" tool to try to search for video devices. I was unable 
> to find any video devices.
> 
> 
> I realize that this is a problem with Mandrake 9.0 rather than with 
> Gnomemeeting, but thought that it might yet be appropriate for 
> the Gnomemeeting discussion group, as this is a common WebCam, Mandrake is a 
> common Linux distro and the Linux  driver for the webcam is widely available, 
> in fact even included in Mandrake 9.0.   I certainly bought it after doing 
> some homework which lead me to believe that it should work under Linux.
> 
> Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Andrew Carson.
> 
> PS It works perfectly under windows 98 2nd ed.
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Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>