On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Martin Mielke wrote: <*]Dear all, <*] <*]I'm wanting to install a "Creative Webcam Plus" (supported) under SuSE 6.4 <*](2.2.14) but I'm having some problems. <*]I followed the instructions described on <*]http://sdb.suse.de/de/sdb/html/usb_ov511.html (sorry, it's only in german) <*]and checked on http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/ that there's a driver for <*]Linux. <*] I checked too, and from the info section of Creative Plus: Comment There are actually two versions of the WebCam Plus. One is this one, model CT6840, which is supported by my ov511 driver. The other is based on the OV518+ chip, which is currently undocumented and unsupported. I am doing the best I can to support this. Is your Webcam the supported one ? http://alpha.dyndns.org/ov511/cameras.html : Creative Labs WebCam Plus (CT6840; U.S.A. model) The other one is from outside the US... <*]xawtv is recommended tp use the webcam, so I dowloaded it. Although the <*]compilation/installation went fine (there are some warnings at compilation <*]time though), I get the following error messages: <*] <*]--- <*]# xawtv <*]This is xawtv-3.28, running on Linux/i586 (2.2.14) <*]visual: id=0x22 class=4 (TrueColor), depth=16 <*]x11: 1024x768, 16 bit/pixel, 2048 byte/scanline, DGA <*]can't open /dev/video: No such device <*]v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway <*]open /dev/video: No such device <*]can't open /dev/video: No such device <*]v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway <*]open /dev/video: No such device <*]no video grabber device available <*]--- XawTV needs Video4Linux tools. Check if this in your kernel config (Multimedia Device section). So you won't need only USB support, but V4L support too. <*]Taking a look at /dev/video* : <*] <*]--- <*]# ls -l /dev/video* <*]lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jan 9 00:27 /dev/video -> <*]/dev/video0 <*]crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 0 Jan 9 00:27 /dev/video0 <*]crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 1 Jan 9 00:27 /dev/video1 <*]crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 2 Jan 9 00:27 /dev/video2 <*]crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 3 Jan 9 00:27 /dev/video3 <*]--- <*] <*]And finally, /dev/fb*: <*] <*]--- <*]# ls -l /dev/fb* <*]lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jan 9 00:27 /dev/fb -> /dev/fb0 <*]crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 0 Jan 9 00:27 /dev/fb0 <*]crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 1 Jan 9 00:27 /dev/fb1 <*]crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 2 Jan 9 00:27 /dev/fb2 <*]crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 3 Jan 9 00:27 /dev/fb3 <*]--- This seems OK for me. <*]Furthermore, a /sbin/init.d/usb status shows that the USB modules have been <*]loaded but no USB device was found :-( <*] <*]Do you know what could be going wrong? Thanks a lot in advance! Any error messages? What's does /var/log/messages say about that? What about your USB hardware? /NB ________________ Nicolas Beaulieu Economics Department, Universite Laval Centre de Recherches en Economie et Finances Appliquees (CREFA) Quebec, Canada mailto:nicolas.beaulieu@ecn.ulaval.ca _________________ http://patagonia.dyndns.org ICQ 15933500 Teamwork is essential: it allows you to blame someone else. _________________