On Fri August 8 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > wow. that looks kind of like there might be a problem in the > driver. If you can't cat from the video device, then there's something > seriously wrong. I highly recommend you check out the gspca drivers > instead of the spca5xx-source packages. I have used the gspca drivers > without difficulty, though there was no sound implemented for my > particular camera. ymmv. > > there is both a gspca-source and gspca-modules-... packages. IIRC, the > spca5xx is being replaced upstream...
but I already have gspca, but no modules.. ~$ dpkg --list |grep spca ii gspca 20080524-1 Package created with checkinstall 1.6.1 ii gspca-source 01.00.20-1 source for the gspca v4l kernel module -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]