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nbcjr

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From: BRAZIL!

Registered: 2004-12-04

Posts: 79

Cannot identify '/dev/video0': 2, No such file or directory

hi! i have a cheap webcam that used to work perfectly on arch, but some update broke it because /dev/video no longer exists (i don't know which upgrade, it has been some months since i used it last time)

when i try to run my webcam applications, it goes like that:

[nbcjr@universo ~]$ sonic-snap
Cannot identify '/dev/video0': 2, No such file or directory

[nbcjr@universo ~]$ sudo ls /dev/
adsp     dvd       hdb      kmsg    loop7      psaux  ram2    snd     ttyS2
audio    fb        hdb1     legacy  mapper     ptmx   ram3    sound   ttyS3
cd       fb0       hdb2     log     md         pts    ram4    stderr  urandom
cdrom    fd        hdb3     loop    md0        ram0   ram5    stdin   vc
cdroms   fd0       hdb4     loop0   mem        ram1   ram6    stdout  vcc
cdrw     fd0h1200  hdb5     loop1   misc       ram10  ram7    tts     zero
console  fd0u1440  hdc      loop2   mixer      ram11  ram8    tty
core     fd0u360   ide      loop3   null       ram12  ram9    tty1
discs    fd0u720   initctl  loop4   nvidia0    ram13  random  tty7
disk     floppy    input    loop5   nvidiactl  ram14  rd      ttyS0
dsp      full      kmem     loop6   port       ram15  shm     ttyS1

thanks!

budgenator

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Registered: 2005-04-26

Posts: 8

Re: Cannot identify '/dev/video0': 2, No such file or directory

That would have been the last kernal upgrade, wiped out my USB mouse which caused XWindows to crash, They had to change back to the UDEV system. I believe the maintainer for the devFS system quit but anyways it was taken out of the kernal.

What I had to do was to change the configuration from /dev/mouse to /dev/input/mouse0, i beileve you can also do ln -s /dev/input/mouse0 /dev/mouse. Try looking in /dev/input/ for your camera.