Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Philips ToUCam Pro and kernel 2.4.17

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

do a modprobe pwc as root, then an "lsmod", if the module is loaded, it
will work.

On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 23:17, Titanicus wrote:
> Hello, 
> I have a philips pcvc 740k (ToUcam Pro) webcam. 
> I downloaded kernel 2.4.17 form kernel.org, I compiled and enabled as
> modules video4linux, then usb-audio, usb-uhci, usb-ohci, uhci and pwc in
> USB section of the kernel config. 
> In /etc/modules.conf I have 
> alias char-major-180      usbcore 
> alias char-major-81       videodev 
> 
> in that order, but gnomemeeting always says Error opening device video,
> channel 0. 
> I installed PWCX-8.2 in /lib/modules/2.4.17/kernel/drivers/usb 
> (that's the location of pwc.o) and ran 'depmod -a' 
> 
> PWCX-8.2 is compiled for kernel 2.4.18. I tried with and without 'Set
> all symbols in modules' at kernel configuration.
> 
> I have SuSE 7.1 (but many packages are updated since 7.1) and XFree
> 4.1.0 
> I installed pwlib and openh323  RPM's for SuSE. 
> 
> Also, I have the old style /dev, that's 
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root   root    6 Sep 22  2000 /dev/video -> video0 
> crw-rw----    1 root     video     81,   0 Jan 19  2001 /dev/video0 
> the user is 'drusilla' and the command 
> # groups drusilla 
> returns
> drusilla : users uucp dialout video 
> 
> I read the FAQ's, I think I have to put something in /etc/modules.conf,
> maybe 
> alias char-major-xyz  pwc 
> but don't know if it's right or wrong, and which numbers are those
> 'xyz'... 
> 
> Don't know what else to do... :'( 
> Can you help me, please? 
> 
> Thanks. 
> 
> Salvatore di Maggio.
> 
> 
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