Hi,
Please help for webcam!
I'm on debian stable, kernel 2.6.8-3-686, and I would like to use my usb webcam logitech chat.

lsusb gives:
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 046d:092e Logitech, Inc.

the driver should be spca5xx
I have installed it, it gives no errors.

Then I do "modprobe spca5xx".

From "lsmod | grep spca" I get:
spca5xx 692336 0
videodev 10016 1 spca5xx
usbcore 119044 4 spca5xx,ohci_hcd

in "dmesg" I find:
~/spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: spca5xx driver 00.60.00 registered

and if I deconnect and connect again the camera, "dmesg" gives:
usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 4
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 5

But when I try "camorama" or "xawtv" I get the error:
"could not connect to video device (/dev/video0)"
and in fact in /dev/ there is not video or video0

what am I missing?
thanks

If it's not a DevFS or Udev thing or a failure of something else then you could try making the device with "mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0 && ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video".

I tried creating the "mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0 && ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video", but did not work.
Please, what do you mean with "DevFS or Udev thing" ?
thanx

All you need is (udev and devfs - The final word (according to G K-H) and) the std doc Writing Udev rules.

Thank you, I'm studying this.
Maybe I have found something wrong with package versions:
spca5xx is available only for debian unstable, and it needs (see http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/spca5xx-source)
debhelper (version >= 5.0.0)
while on sarge stable, I have only debhelper 4.2.32
Could be this?

Basically, can spca5xx be used in debian sarge (without backports) ??
or am I losing time?
thanx