On 2001.06.16 12:30:34 +0200 nobuaki miyamoto wrote: > Hello. When I use a Kensington webcam(Philips webcom compatible) in > Redhat7.1J and run gqcam,the erorr occured"dev/video is directory". > How can I work a Kensington webcam? > Kensington webcam (SE401 usb based)is supported in linux.I checked. > I made the se401 driver and gqcam. If you installed the driver properly there should be a message that it has found a se401 camera and which video device is used, you can use dmesg to look for it. If so the driver side is ok. You then need the right device files for it, normally its /dev/video0 ... /dev/videoN with /dev/video usually a symlink to /dev/video0. But on some systems /dev/video is a directory itself with the videoN files in it. Can you do 'ls -l /dev/video*' ? A real video device (not a directory) should look something like this: crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 81, 0 Mar 13 2000 /dev/video0 Note the major number 81. The minor number 0 indicates the device number (video0 in this case) Hope this helps, Jeroen
