[cpia] Problem with cpia-0.7.4

[Jacob Nikom]

Hi Johannes,

Thank you very much for your help. I followed your advice and 
mounted the device using fstab. Here is my fstab file:

/dev/sda1               /                       ext2       
defaults        1 1
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660    
noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto       
noauto,owner    0 0
none                    /proc                   proc       
defaults        0 0
none                    /dev/pts                devpts     
gid=5,mode=620  0 0
/dev/sda5               swap                    swap       
defaults        0 0
/dev/video              /proc/bus/usb           usbdevfs   
defaults        0 0


However, the gqcam program still cannot recognize the video device:

prompt>gqcam
/dev/video: No such device


Here are my mounted devices:
prompt> mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/video0 on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
automount(pid447) on /releases-sgi type autofs
(rw,fd=5,pgrp=447,minproto=2,maxproto=3)
automount(pid463) on /projects type autofs
(rw,fd=5,pgrp=463,minproto=2,maxproto=3)
automount(pid477) on /homes type autofs
(rw,fd=5,pgrp=477,minproto=2,maxproto=3)
automount(pid434) on /distributions type autofs
(rw,fd=5,pgrp=434,minproto=2,maxproto=3)
automount(pid429) on /releases-linux type autofs
(rw,fd=5,pgrp=429,minproto=2,maxproto=3)
hercules:/homes/nikom on /homes/nikom type nfs
(rw,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,addr=137.203.128.5,addr=137.203.128.5)
none on /var/shm type shm (rw)
prompt>

I thought I need "video0" instead of "video" and recompiled frontend.c
but it did not help.
Do you know what could be wrong?

Regards,

Jacob Nikom


Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2000, Jacob Nikom <nikom@merl.com> wrote:
> > Thank you very much for your response. There is nothing
> > in my /proc/bus/usb directory. I think it is empty because
> > I did not have any devices but CPIA camera.
> 
> All USB devices will be listed in there. And even if you don't have any
> USB devices connected, there will be a devices and drivers file.
> 
> If it's empty, the filesystem hasn't been mounted.
> 
> > When I tried to mount my /proc/bus/usb directory,
> > I got an error:
> > [nikom@xxx linux]# mount /proc/bus/usb
> > mount: can't find /proc/bus/usb in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
> > [nikom@xxx linux]#
> 
> mount -t usbdevfs none /proc/bus/usb
> 
> > Should I edit fstab manually or the correct version should be
> > created automatically? I suspect, there is something wrong in
> > my kernel configuration settings but I don't know what it could be.
> 
> It's not automatic. You need to manually mount it. You can add it to
> fstab as well.
> 
> JE