[cpia] Problem with cpia-0.7.4

[Johannes Erdfelt]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2000, Jacob Nikom <nikom@merl.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to get my WebCamII work with USB driver.
> I used to work with old parallel port version of this
> camera. My machine is Pentium II (Klamath) with 128MB.
> I was able to get 2.3.99-pre5 kernel working and \
> configured the cpia driver inside the kernel:
> CONFIG_VIDEO_BWQCAM=y
> CONFIG_VIDEO_CQCAM=y
> CONFIG_VIDEO_CPIA=y
> CONFIG_VIDEO_CPIA_PP=y
> CONFIG_VIDEO_CPIA_USB=y
> 
> 
> Following the discussion I create shm directory in the 
> /var directory and mounted it :
> mount -t shm none /var/shm
> 
> Then I successfully configured and compiled my files. 
> However, when I started to run gqcam executable, it complained:
> /dev/video: No such device
> 
> Actually, such a device exists, but it does not have major number:
> #ls -l vid*
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            6 Mar 31 05:35 video -> video0
> crw-------    1 nikom    root      81,   0 Jan 28 16:59 video0
> crw-------    1 nikom    root      81,   1 Jan 28 16:59 video1
> 
> Should I create new video device using mknod command?
> I am not sure what else has to be done to make it work.

You don't need to create a new device node.

Is USB working correctly?

Did you mount /proc/bus/usb? If so, do a cat /proc/bus/usb/devices and
see what it's in there.

JE