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#1 2025-01-01 20:41:23
- zoeid
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- Registered: 2016-05-06
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freshly install arch, no way to make webcam working
hello, just installed arch, but I can not get my webcam to work in arch (that is working on winzoz)
here what i tried to do
[deja@archlinux ~]$ lsusb
...
Bus 001 Device 009: ID 1b3f:2002 Generalplus Technology Inc. 808 Camera
...
[deja@archlinux ~]$ [deja@archlinux ~]$ ls -l /dev/video*
ls: cannot access '/dev/video*': No such file or directory
[deja@archlinux ~]$ sudo mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0
[deja@archlinux ~]$ ls -l /dev/video*
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 81, 0 Jan 1 21:05 /dev/video0
[deja@archlinux ~]$ ls /dev/video*
/dev/video0
[deja@archlinux ~]$ v4l2-ctl --list-devices
Unable to detect what device /dev/video0 is, exiting.
[deja@archlinux ~]$ but still could not get it to work
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#2 2025-01-01 20:51:14
- seth
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Re: freshly install arch, no way to make webcam working
Try https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 1#p2217701 and don't just mknod things yourself unless you know what why and where 
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