[cpia] Ezonics EZDual Cam

Scott Bronson bronson@rinspin.com
Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:11:29 -0700


Let's just be sure you've got a decent device node.
As root:

rm /dev/video /dev/video0
mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0 
chmod 666 /dev/video0
chgrp video /dev/video0
ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video

It should look like this:

crw-rw-rw-    1 root     video     81,   0 Nov  1  2000 /dev/video0

Now try it.

	- Scott


Chris Wesneski wrote:
> 
> Ok so I did some more checking and I might be out of luck. I checked for
> the the VID/PID and got 0x6f0/0xde01 which is registered to TNC
> Industrial. I found their web page and they actually have windows
> drivers for other similar part numbers, but not this one. I did however
> try my QCam Express (with the qc drivers of course) and got the same
> problem with /dev/video. I know this isn't the correct place for this
> question but, if anyone can help can you mail me at wesneski@swbell.net?
> 
> Chris Wesneski wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know if the Ezonics EZDual Cam is CPiA based? I'm trying to
> > get it to work with RH 7.1 (2.4.2-2 kernel) with the cpia-1.2 drivers
> > with no luck. I've compiled the kernel with Video for linux and so forth
> > (following a post from linuxnewbie.org about cpia based cams) and got
> > the drivers to compile but when I insmod cpia.o I get:
> >
> > kernel: V4L-Driver for Vision CPiA based cameras v1.2.0
> > modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module cpia_usb
> >
> > then I do insmod cpia_usb.o:
> >
> > kernel: usb.c: registered new driver cpia
> >
> > I run ./gqcam and get:
> > /dev/video: No such device
> >
> > and from the kernel:
> >
> > modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-81-0
> >
> > I had a /dev/video already but it was a directory and when I ran gqcam
> > it said /dev/video: Is a directory. Duh. So I moved that and created a
> > hard link to /dev/video0 (why, I don't know, I was way over my head at
> > this point). It seems like I'm just missing something small but I don't
> > know what. Should there be some info about V4L loading somewhere? I'm
> > lost. Help!
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Chris