Re: Should be /dev/video* but isn't there

[ajpearce <ajpearceuk@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's a SN9C103 webcam and the module is loaded.

All I get is `No device found`

 if I 

`# mknod /dev/video0`

Any ideas?

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:15:43 +0000, ajpearce <ajpearceuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is a common problem now.
> 
> I plug in a piece of hardware and it's recognised in /proc (with say,
> lspci or lsusb), but there's no entry foir it in /dev.
> 
> This is something common to all hardware experiences on linux and the
> latest thing to have troubles with is my
> 
> 9c* kernel module USB webcam
> 
> The link between recognising the hardware and making an entry in/dev
> is not clear to me.
> 
> I use udev. How can I monitor what it's doing?
> 
> (Distro is Ubuntu, 2.6.8 kernel. Tried a copy of knoppix and will try
> later kernels, more detail after I figure out how the user views how
> udev and the kernel interact)
>

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