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Greets everyone;

I'm trying to make a logitech clicksmart 310 work under linux.

The recommended proceedure seems to be to make the kernel patches in 
quickcam-1.0.5, adding the vendor/product numbers of course, rebuild 
the kernel (2.4.21-rc7) followed by gqcam-0.9 to run it.

Everything seems to go swimingly, and on a reboot the camera seems to 
be 'registered' by the kernel and an lsmod shows that all the 
appropriate modules are in fact loaded.  I'd post some of that, but 
the registration process seems to be extremely verbose, its several 
hundred lines in the /var/log/messages file, with no obvious error 
messages.

Just one huge fly in the soup here, at least on a redhat 8.0 system.

The gqcam device generator scripts bomb out because the base device, 
/dev/video, already exists and is in fact a directory!  So, gqcam 
dies because it cannot find the basic video device.

I also have a working WinTV-GO+FM card (BT-848 based) in this machine 
that gnomeradio runs just fine, and xawtv runs the tv section just 
fine.  I also have an Olympus C-3020, but although its a usb device 
too, its a vfat file system to linux, using the usb_storage facility, 
so I doubt thats a factor here.

Based on that, whats going to go tits up if I delete this /dev/video 
directory, which contains these files:

em8300  em8300_ma  em8300_mv  em8300_sp

and go ahead and run the device generator script for Gqcam again?

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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