OrbiCam does not work on Ubuntu

[Thomas Kaiser]

Phil Pinkerton wrote:
> OrbiCam does not work on Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xbuntu Feisty Herd5 ( fawn? )
> 7.04 amd64
> 
> lsusb = Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp.
> 
> video0 does exist but xawtv does not see it ??
> 
> ll /dev/video0
> crw-rw—- 1 root adm 81, 0 2007-04-23 05:41 /dev/video0
> 
> xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/x86_64 (2.6.20-14-generic)
> 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
> 
> 
> Note: Tried building and install driver from SVN source:
> 
> lsmod = usbcore                   154416  7
> m560x,usbhid,usb_storage,libusual,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
>              videodev                    29824  1 m560x
>              v4l2_common            28800  1 videodev
>              v4l1_compat              14980  1 videodev
> 
> Ubuntu Linux 2.6.20-14-generic #2 SMP Mon Apr 2 16:32:46 UTC 2007 x86_64
> GNU/Linux
> 
> Works fine on XP
> 
> What's the hang up on this driver  web search is full of OLD News about
> the m560x driver ??

Hello Phil

It looks that only root and group adm has access to /dev/video0. Your 
are a member of the adm group? Did you try this as root?

Thomas


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