Webcams again

[ktheking]

yesssssssss...

knoppix version 05/09/03 contains kernel ver 2.4.22 and indeed all webcam troubles went away (at list with my ov511 based webcam)

[flippantfig]

I have my camera running OK in SuSE 8.2 but the last 2 versions of Knoppix I have tried haven't offered me any solutions t orunning a webcam in knoppix/debian. After a lot of thread reading, mod installing and head scratching I now ask for advice...

The camera is a logitech quickcam clone (dexxa), and its plugged into an asus mobo with usb2.

after a straight HD install and following the usb-quickcam module install instructions (http://qce-ga.sourceforge.net), lsmod gives:

Module Size Used by Not tainted
quickcam 96288 0 (unused)
videodev 5472 0 [quickcam]
autofs4 8756 0 (unused)
af_packet 13448 0
reiserfs 169616 0 (unused)
ext3 64132 1
jbd 46292 1 [ext3]
nls_iso8859-1 2844 0 (unused)
ntfs 51168 0 (unused)
msdos 4652 0 (unused)
agpgart 38296 0 (unused)
via82cxxx_audio 19452 0
ac97_codec 11884 0 [via82cxxx_audio]
uart401 6052 0 [via82cxxx_audio]
sound 55244 0 [via82cxxx_audio uart401]
soundcore 3428 4 [via82cxxx_audio sound]
8139too 17096 1
mii 2240 0 [8139too]
crc32 2816 0 [8139too]
serial 51972 0
usb-uhci 21836 0 (unused)
usbcore 57472 0 [quickcam usb-uhci]
rtc 6908 0

Then dmesg gives:

*snip*

usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 00:03:14 Sep 6 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xe800, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xe400, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xe000, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
...

Linux video capture interface: v1.00
quickcam [28.802416]: ----------LOADING QUICKCAM MODULE------------
quickcam [28.802431]: struct quickcam size: 5424
usb.c: registered new driver quickcam

and running xawtv as a capture device returns:

This is xawtv-3.88, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.22-xfs)
can't open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l: open /dev/video0: No such device
no video grabber device available

The device files are there in /dev. I have tried MAKEDEV video and also:
mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0
chmod a+r /dev/video0
ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video

no luck. Its driving me mad! Any suggestions? What have I missed(a kernel recompile??)?