OrbiCam does not work on Ubuntu

Phil Pinkerton pcpinkerton at gmail.com
Mon Apr 23 13:35:41 UTC 2007


OrbiCam does not work on Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xbuntu Feisty Herd5 ( fawn? )
7.04 amd64

lsusb = Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp.

video0 does exist but xawtv does not see it ??

ll /dev/video0
crw-rw—- 1 root adm 81, 0 2007-04-23 05:41 /dev/video0

xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/x86_64 (2.6.20-14-generic)
can’t open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l: open /dev/video0: No such device
no video grabber device available


Note: Tried building and install driver from SVN source:

lsmod = usbcore                   154416  7
m560x,usbhid,usb_storage,libusual,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
             videodev                    29824  1 m560x
             v4l2_common            28800  1 videodev
             v4l1_compat              14980  1 videodev

Ubuntu Linux 2.6.20-14-generic #2 SMP Mon Apr 2 16:32:46 UTC 2007 x86_64
GNU/Linux

Works fine on XP

What's the hang up on this driver  web search is full of OLD News about
the m560x driver ??








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