Integrated webcam in Cheese : "No device found"

Avinash Sonawane rootkea at gmail.com
Wed May 20 14:11:33 UTC 2015


On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 7:15 PM, Hans Petter Selasky <hps at selasky.org> wrote:
> On 05/20/15 14:31, Avinash Sonawane wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Hans Petter Selasky <hps at selasky.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Is your webcam detected?
>>
>>
>> I guess it didn't as `dmesg | grep webcam` yielded nothing. How can we
>> know whether the webcam got detected by the system or not?
>>
>>> ls /dev/video*
>>
>>
>> There is no file naming video* in /dev
>>
>>> Does your user belong to the webcamd group?
>>
>>
>> Earlier it didn't. But after seeing your query I added the user to
>> webcamd group.
>>
>
> Did you enable webcamd?
>
> webcamd_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf

Yes I have a line saying webcamd_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf as
mentioned in the very first mail.


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Avinash Sonawane (RootKea)
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