[kopete-bugs] [Bug 176868] Algorithm to find video devices is not udev friendly and lead to not find webcams

[Frank Schaefer]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176868


Frank Schaefer <fschaefer.oss at googlemail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |fschaefer.oss at googlemail.co
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         Resolution|                            |FIXED




--- Comment #9 from Frank Schaefer <fschaefer oss googlemail com>  2011-01-03 21:40:15 ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> kopete first looks at /dev/v4l for something like video*. If it finds /dev/v4l
> but no video* inside it, then it simply stop to search for any further device
> and claims there are no video devices on the system.
> ...
> The device scaning code should be updated so that the search order is:
> 1) search for /dev/v4l/by-path/<something>
> 2) search for /dev/v4l/video*
> 3/ search for /dev/video*

KDE 3 is no longer maintained and KDE4 uses Solid to detect available video
devices.

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