Webcam question

Bart Silverstrim bsilver at chrononomicon.com
Thu Nov 6 15:46:39 UTC 2008


I did the last kernel update (intrepid).

I have 2 Logitech Quickcams connected to my system, but using gqview 
/dev/video0 and video1 both give green screens with "error reading 
image..." messages at the console (using ssh -X)

lsusb states:
Bus 002 Device 007: ID 046d:08d7 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Communicate STX
Bus 002 Device 006: ID 046d:08d7 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Communicate STX

So, these are being seen, and I'm thinking the /dev entries wouldn't be 
there if the module wasn't loaded, but I'm having a brain fart on what 
to do to check the module or see what other problem would give that 
error. Maybe I need to unplug them and plug them back in but I'm not 
onsite at the moment. Any hints or anyone else have that happen?




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