Problem using xawtv with Quickcam Express

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Having beginners problems with using a webcam - Logitech Quickcam Express.
It plugs into a USB port.
Kernel version : 2.4.13 with compiled in (modular) support for video4linux
and ov511 chipset (not sure if that is the one).

Created rpms for xawtv from source (version 3.65) and installed them.
Installed qce-ga-0.40b and ran ./quickcam.sh

Now I get strange errors when I try to run xawtv :

[root@waheguru /dev]# xawtv
This is xawtv-3.65, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.13)
can't open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l: open /dev/video0: No such device
no video grabber device available

(mind you, I am running the above as root, so there cannot be a
permissions problem)

The device entries are :

crw-------    1 root     root      81,   0 Dec  8 03:22 video0
crw-------    1 root     root      81,   1 Mar 23  2001 video1
crw-------    1 root     root      81,   2 Mar 23  2001 video2
crw-------    1 root     root      81,   3 Mar 23  2001 video3

video:
total 0
crw-------    1 root     root      10, 204 Mar 23  2001 em8300
crw-------    1 root     root      10, 206 Mar 23  2001 em8300_ma
crw-------    1 root     root      10, 205 Mar 23  2001 em8300_mv
crw-------    1 root     root      10, 207 Mar 23  2001 em8300_sp

After loading the modules with quickcam.sh, the list of modules is :
[root@waheguru /dev]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
mod_quickcam           30704   0  (unused)
usb-uhci               21264   0  (unused)
videodev                4864   0  [mod_quickcam]
ipt_MASQUERADE          1776   1  (autoclean)
ipt_LOG                 3280   1  (autoclean)
ipt_state                576   1  (autoclean)
iptable_filter          1728   0  (autoclean) (unused)
ip_nat_ftp              3632   0  (unused)
iptable_nat            19024   1  [ipt_MASQUERADE ip_nat_ftp]
ip_conntrack_ftp        3760   0  [ip_nat_ftp]
ip_conntrack           20144   3  [ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_state ip_nat_ftp
iptable_nat ip_conntrack_ftp]
ip_tables              13280   7  [ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_LOG ipt_state
iptable_filter iptable_nat]

I found an error message in my /var/log/messages :

Dec  8 15:16:06 waheguru kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2,
assigned device number 3
Dec  8 15:16:06 waheguru kernel: usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod
0x46d/0x870) is not claimed by any active driver.
Dec  8 15:16:39 waheguru modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
char-major-81-0
Dec  8 15:16:40 waheguru last message repeated 2 times
Dec  8 15:18:11 waheguru kernel: usb.c: registered new driver quickcam

To try to fix it, I edited /etc/modules.conf to add :

alias char-major-81-0 mod_quickcam

Rebooted. No luck.

Could someone figure out what is going on. And suggest a solution.

Thanks,

Madhusudan Singh.








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