Camorama

[Phil Pinkerton]

I wish I had taken better notes, I did keep a group tab of all the
places I went to *try* to get 6.10 to work, perhaps when I have more
time I will try to retrace my steps.

Some noticeable big differences I see between the two Ubuntu versions I
noticed are the device handling
6.10 for example shows /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb1 as my two drives.

But 7.04 looks at the drives as scsi ( though they are not ) and
shows/sees /dev/sda1 and  /dev/sdb1. This was by default
as I did nothing special when installing from the cds.

As far as my Web Camera goes,  when I boot the 6.10 drive the little
blue light on the top of the camera is always on,
but with7.04 the light only comes on when I activate an application that
uses the camera.

When I finally gave up trying to get the camera to work on 6.10 and
installed 7.04 on my 2nd drive I installed the new driver and the
applications like Xawtv etc. and it just worked fine. My goal was simple
to be able to see my kids via computer ( they are 7000 miles away ). So
I did not prepare to log the events necessary to get the camera to work.

Good luck Jim I hope you get your camera working soon.

Phil


Jim Smith wrote:
> Phil Pinkerton wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>>   
>>     
> I may do just that. First a Live cd to check things out. BTW if we are
> going to Herd5 is that not BSD? Are we moving away from the Linux
> Kernel? I have been avoiding the politics and concentrating on getting
> this and the other systems I'm responsible for up and going.
>  Further checking with Hardinfo shows the spca5xx module loaded with
> depends on usbcore (loaded) and videodev(also loaded). As you say, looks
> like Feisty must have the missing piece.
>
> Thanks again
>
> Jim
>
>