About at the end of my tether with my webcam

[Gérard BIGOT]

On 6/29/07, Darryl LeCount <darryl at jamyskis.net> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Despite using Ubuntu for nearly three years now, I have still yet to
> find a sensible solution for my webcam troubles. Before Feisty I did at
> least manage to install Michel Xhaard's spca5xxx driver and so got at
> the very least XawTV (sort of) and Ekiga working.
>
> Under Feisty, Ekiga now refuses point blank to recognise my webcam. I
> have never, ever managed to get Camorama working. XawTV would still does
> grab my cam *if* I:
>
> (a) ran it as root
> (b) pass -nodga to it
> (c) and select AUTO as the TV norm (going back to PAL works again then)
>
> lsusb gives me: Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0733:1311 ViewQuest Technologies,
> Inc. Digital Dream Epsilon 1.3
>
> It is fairly old (about five years).
>
> Camgrab also worked if I ran it as root. Eventually I had no choice but
> to sudo chmod 777 /dev/video0 (it was already read-access for all) so at
> the very least XawTV and Camgrab work under normal users. Ekiga,
> however, does not, and this is bugging me no end. Camorama still doesn't
> with the very unhelpful "Couldn't connect to video device (/dev/video0)"
> - very nice, but no explanation why.
>
> Would anyone be able to lend any advice as to what's happening here?


Hi,

it looks like your /dev/video0 is owned by root. Could you give us the
result of ls -l /dev/video0 ?

It that case you may use chown to grab the /etc/video0 device

G.
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