[ale] Logitec USB Quickcam questions?

[Robert L. Harris]

I'm running Debian with a home grown 2.6.1 kernel.  I dont' see a
"quickcam" module in the kernel.

{0}:/lib/modules/2.6.1-bk4/kernel/drivers>find . -iname \*cam\*
./usb/media/ibmcam.ko
./usb/media/ultracam.ko
./usb/media/vicam.ko

root at spirit
{0}:/lib/modules/2.6.1-bk4/kernel/drivers>cd -
/usr/src/kernel/linux-2.6.1

root at spirit
{0}:/usr/src/kernel/linux-2.6.1>grep -i quick .config

root at spirit
{1}:/usr/src/kernel/linux-2.6.1>

root at spirit
{1}:/usr/src/kernel/linux-2.6.1>xawtv
This is xawtv-3.90, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.1-bk4)
can't open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l: open /dev/video0: No such device
no video grabber device available


I've tried loading those 3 drivers and still nada.



Thus spake Geoffrey (esoteric at 3times25.net):

> Robert L. Harris wrote:
> >
> >  I just got a Logitech Quickcam, usb.  Anyone know what drivers are
> >needed for this and preferably the name of a good program that'll can be
> >run via comman line to snap pics and save them to disk?
> 
> I've got the same cam.  Works out of the box with SuSE 8.2 and 9.0. 
> What dist are you running?
> 
> The module that's needed is mod_quickcam, you might have it.  I use 
> xawtv to view when running X and it comes with xawtv-remote which you 
> can use to take snaps of what xawtv is viewing.  You can also use a 
> package called 'motion' to do motion detection type capture.
> 
> xawtv used to come with something called streamer that you could use to 
> capture a stream, individual images or a single image.  It did not come 
> with my latest version of xawtv, but you might search for it.  That's 
> the only package I've used to do command line capture that doesn't 
> require X.  Motion will do that, but it's dependent upon motion 
> detection to initiate the capture.
> 
> Of course this is all just a bunch of lies, I made it all up to impress 
> everyone how I know everything. ;)
> 
> -- 
> Until later, Geoffrey	esoteric at 3times25.net
> 
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> 
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