Quoting Bret Comstock Waldow <bwaldow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I haven't heard anything from the author of the driver for this cam, so
> I'm having to continue on my own.
>
> I'm getting some symptoms that either are a problem with v4l, or at
> least are reported via v4l and I need help gaining at least some initial
> understanding of what is going wrong.
>
> Here is some output:
>
> bret@ganesha:~> v4l-conf
> v4l-conf: using X11 display :0.0
> dga: version 2.0
> mode: 1024x768, depth=24, bpp=32, bpl=4096, base=0xf0000000
> can't open /dev/video0: Bad address
>
> What might this mean? Where should I start looking? Here are the devices:
It means that you don't need to use v4l-conf or overlay in general with
USB webcams. USB does not support overlay (because of technical reasons).
This is not an error anyway. If you use xawtv with USB camera then specify
option '-remote' to bypass overlay:
$ xawtv -remote
[...]
Thanks,
Dmitri
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