> I actually have spent most of the day > looking at those sites, and I just can't figure out > why the device isn't detecting. dmesg shows that it > detects the device is plugged in, but no program that > I can run seems to connect to it. I am baffled. Any > ideas on how to do some simple diagnostics to see if > the right module is loading, the correct /dev/video? > is being created, and then some kind of camera display > program links to it? I have a sneaky feeling that all > this stuff would work much better under SuSE, but I'm > stuck on RH for now. Dream on ;-) If you have loaded the pwc (and optionally pwcx) module, and also have loaded the appropriate usb modules (!) you should have an (extra) /dev/video device that xawtv can operate on.
