Re: About at the end of my tether with my webcam

On 6/29/07, Darryl LeCount <darryl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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

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