<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">But that's just it - I don't know where these drivers are, so i'm not sure how to load them...<br><br>I
will try to make the device node manually and see if that works. But
without creating the driver I'm not sure how this is possible.<br><br>-Walter<br><br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 4/14/09, Joel Newkirk <i><freerunner@newkirk.us></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Joel Newkirk <freerunner@newkirk.us><br>Subject: Re: Problem with webcam connected to openmoko<br>To: wheeltracks1932@yahoo.com<br>Cc: devel@lists.openmoko.org<br>Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 7:04 PM<br><br><pre>On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:43:10 -0700 (PDT)<br>Walter Christie <wheeltracks1932@yahoo.com> wrote:<br><br>> Hi all,<br>> I'm using my FreeRunner with Debian, running the 2.6.28 kernel.<br>I'm<br>> trying to get my QuickCam 5000 running, and can't seem to<br>> generate /dev/video0. The webcam is connected to the Neo through a<br>> powered hub. Are the v4l2 drivers already buil-in <br>> <br>> The Neo is set as a USB host, and it actually
works with a USB<br>> keyboard connected through the hub. "lsusb/" shows the right<br>device<br>> ID, and so forth for the webcam. I've got all the relevant packages<br>> installed correctly... fswebcam says that there's no /dev/video0,<br>> v4l-conf says the same thing. There's nothing in /dev that looks<br>> relevant.<br>> <br>> What else could I do to get the webcam to work?<br><br>http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Webcam<br><br>It's been there for a while, I'm not sure if there's a more recent<br>solution documented somewhere. It presumes Debian, requires building a<br>few kernel modules for v4l and the UVC webcam driver. (the QuickCam5000<br>uses UVC) However, it refers to kernel 2.6.24, while 2.6.28 offers UVC<br>and SPCA webcam support in-tree, may find the relevant modules already<br>built and installable somewhere. <br><br>It also notes that the device node wasn't created automatically,<br>needing:<br>mkdir -p
/dev/v4l<br>mknod /dev/v4l/video0 c 81 0 <br><br>j<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>