I have OpenSuse 11.1 running KDE 4.1.3 on a Dell Lattitude D620 and I have a Creative webcam which i specially bought so that its supported by the UVC wecam driver. I loaded the uvc webcam PAE driver, and the luvcview program.
lsusb shows
Bus 005 Device 006: ID 041e:4055 Creative Technology, Ltd Live! Cam Video IM Pro
Bus 005 Device 005: ID 0b97:7762 O2 Micro, Inc. Oz776 SmartCard Reader
Bus 005 Device 004: ID 413c:8103 Dell Computer Corp. Wireless 350 Bluetooth
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0b97:7761 O2 Micro, Inc. Oz776 1.1 Hub
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 413c:a005 Dell Computer Corp. Internal 2.0 Hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
so it sees the webcam.
But luvcview has this complaint
luvcview 0.2.4
SDL information:
Video driver: x11
A window manager is available
Device information:
Device path: /dev/video0
ERROR opening V4L interface: No such file or directory
I’ve been running opensuse’s on this notebook for more than 2 years.
luvcview doesn’t see the camera, nor does kopete or ekiga.
What am I doing wrong? I’ve been trying to get a working webcam in suse linux for 2 years. and no matter what they don’t work.
Karl
> Seem videodev and spca5xx is loaded so that is not the problem. You should try
> to make the /dev/video0 node by hand with
> mknod -m 644 /dev/video0 c 81 0
> Seem strange as i am working with Suse and never see that
as with many things, in webcams, the nice things about standards is that there are so many to choose from;
