Greets everyone; This is a slightly edited repost since my first post about 3 days back was ignored. 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 (I did it to the patch since I'm always building the latest gee-whiz 2.4 kernel), rebuild the kernel (2.4.21-rc7 ATM) followed by gqcam-0.9 to run it. The one thing I'm confused on is that the bttv stuffs installed an 'alias char-major-81 bttv' in modules.conf, and this software wants that line to read 'alias char-major-81 videodev'. And, although an lsmod shows videodev is loaded, I cannot get gqcam (or anything else for that matter) to get away from the bttv stuffs. 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. Additional on the above, I mv'd that dir to something else without effecting xawtv or gnomeradio, so its now a link to videodev. 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: Addition, apparently nothing, but any attempt to access a video type device always winds up hooking up to the bt848, and not the Clicksmart 310. Original contents of /dev/video: em8300 em8300_ma em8300_mv em8300_sp and go ahead and run the device generator script for Gqcam again? Can one have two alias lines that reference the same char-major device number set in ones modules.conf? I'm going to build the 2.4.21-rc8 kernel, add that to modules.conf, and see if a reboot changes anything. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
