[GnomeMeeting-list] Gnomemeeting can't open /dev/video0

["Sami Kiiskila" <sami kiiskila tut fi>]

Hello

What might be the problem with my setup ?

I installed ubuntu and tried the gnomemeeting that came with it.
Seemed to work but without video, it even found the microphone
on the usb webcamera.

So I compiled the required driver (spca5xx) for this webcamera (Labtec).
It needed some development libraries as expected but I got it done.
I also compiled the spcaview-tool which displays the video correctly.

But gnomemeeting is not able to use the video. When I select the V4L2
plugin and try to open the wiev from own camera I get and error window
about "not able to open /dev/video0 , check permissions".
I have checked the permissions several times, finally turned
them to 777 even tried to run gnomemeeting as root ... nothing helped.
There aren't other video devices than video0, and it works fine
with spcaview.

When gnomemeetin is trying to open the device the green led on the
camera flashes couple of times and then this error window appears.
The led flashes also when I start spcaview so it seems to indicate that
gnomemeeting is having some communication going on with the camera.

And this is the interesting point, this same hardware (pc and camera)
worked earlier with vector linux, gnomemeeting and spca5xx driver.

So where to try to find the problem? What is the most probable cause,
is it ubuntu, wrong version of gnomemeeting or wrong version of
spca5xx driver?

I tried strace to see where the program fails but it didn't helped much,
do you know any diagnostics programs that dump the video ioctl calls
that are being transmitted to a device?

-- 
Sami