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FYI also tried the following:
craig@Inspiron:~$ sudo service webcamstudio restart
[sudo] password for craig:
* Stopping WebcamStudio kernel modules
* No WebcamStudio kernel modules loaded
[ OK ]
* Loading WebcamStudio kernel modules
* No suitable WebcamStudio modules for the running kernel found
[ OK ]
Original comment by craig.w...@theoldfarmhouse.org
on 4 May 2013 at 9:16
After more experimenting I have tried also installing webcamstudio-dkms:
craig@Inspiron:~$ sudo apt-get install webcamstudio-dkms
...
webcamstudio:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/3.8.0-19-generic/updates/dkms/
depmod......
DKMS: install completed.
However when I run webcamstudio I still see the same error dialogue "None of
the kernel modules webcamstudio/v4l2loopback are loaded... The virtual webcam
will not be available..."
Original comment by craig.w...@theoldfarmhouse.org
on 4 May 2013 at 9:24
And finally I run modprobe
craig@Inspiron:~$ sudo modprobe webcamstudio
... and it is now working!
Original comment by craig.w...@theoldfarmhouse.org
on 4 May 2013 at 9:34
Updated my Ubuntu (apt-get upgrade) today and an updated webcamstudio was
installed.
Having done so the "None of the kernel modules webcamstudio/v4l2loopback are
loaded... The virtual webcam will not be available..." error returned until I
next rebooted.
Original comment by craig.w...@theoldfarmhouse.org
on 14 May 2013 at 6:59
Hi,
Thanks for your info and investigation of the problem, and sorry for my late
reply...
This is not an actual bug...
I am sorry for this annoying inconvenience, but it is a kinda design decision.
This dialog is only there to remind you that you need to install/load the
required kernel module (this could be WCS' own kernel module named webcamstudio
or the v4l2loopback kernel module if installed).
So WCS is split into two packages - webcamstudio and webcamstudio-dkms. And
when you install the webcamstudio package, it recommends either
webcamstudio-dkms or the v4l2loopback-dkms to be installed. After every
add/update/upgrade of any of these dkms modules a restart of the webcamstudio
service is needed, but that shouldn't be done auto by any of the dkms modules,
since the user may want to use just them and not the webcamstudio application,
thus resulting into install error of the dkms module(I will refine this auto
service restart in later releases).
We've been thinking of removing this warning message, but this way the user may
not be aware he is not having any of the dkms modules available and loaded.
Maybe we need to think on another solution.
Anyway for now (even in SVN code) after installing/updating any of the dkms
modules that work with WCS either manual restart of the webcamstudio service or
a PC reboot is needed, so the changes could take effect.
Feel free to share any other convenient solution :)
Again... I am sorry for the annoyance....
Original comment by peter.u....@gmail.com
on 16 Jun 2013 at 8:13
Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy PPA created with correct WCStudio video module.
Original comment by soylent...@gmail.com
on 26 Oct 2013 at 10:05
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
craig.w...@theoldfarmhouse.org
on 4 May 2013 at 8:46