Camorama

[Phil Pinkerton]

The block/character issue used to confuse me also.

Why not burn and install Feisty Herd5 now ?

And enjoy your camera.

Phil


Jim Smith wrote:
> Jim Smith wrote:
>   
>> Thanks for cleaning the cruft out, I should have,
>> mknod returned the error "invalid device type '81"" would 'MAKEDEV" work
>> do you think?
>>
>>   
>>     
> Error on last post. I did clean it out this time. Your "ls" result shows
> that /dev/video0 is a character device, I would have thought it a block
> device. I am running Dapper here and if what you say is true maybe I
> should wait a few weeks for Feisty to be released. (Maybe I will wrap
> the whole thread up in a tarball and send it to the gurus at LXF
> magazine for them to muddle over.) I thank you and the rest of the
> community for the help you have given. While I am waiting perhaps I will
> add spca5xx to /etc/modules so it will load at boot and I don't have to
> modprobe it each time.
>
> Thanks once again
>
> Jim
>
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