[TriLUG] Logitech QuickCam - no video device found

[William Sutton]

yes...udev/hotplug/etc.  for gentoo, I just added spca5xx to 
/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, along with videodev and quickcam.

that should do the job next time I reboot.  in the meantime, I have it 
running, so life is good.  thanks! :)

-- 
William Sutton


On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Timothy A. Chagnon wrote:

> Yeah, you shouldn't have to load those manually.  Here's a cleaned up
> syslog output from just plugging in the camera in case you're
> interested:
> 
> kernel: usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
> kernel: Linux video capture interface: v1.00 kernel:
> drivers/usb/media/spca5xx/spca5xx-core.c: USB SPCA5XX camera
> found.Logitech QuickCam chat (SPCA561A)
> kernel: usbcore: registered new driver spca5xx kernel:
> drivers/usb/media/spca5xx/spca5xx-core.c: spca5xx driver 00.57.02
> registered
> usb.agent: spca5xx: loaded successfully
> 
> I'm not up on my hotplug/udev whatnot, except to ask if you've got
> udevd in your process list (you already mentioned 2.6 kernel).  But
> that's seems to be where your problem is.
> 
> A little looking says try running usbmodules to see if it reports the
> correct module for the plugged in device.  If not, that man page says
> use depmod to update /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/modules.usbmap
> 
> Glad to be some help!
> Tim
> 
> On 1/18/06, William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:
> > Hmmmm....had not realized that I needed to load the spca5xx as a module.
> > Once I did modprobe spca5xx (and validated that it loaded through lsmod),
> > gqcam worked.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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