If your webcam is already supported by Linux, access it with motv. Find a summary of the supported USB devices at http://www.linux-usb.org. If you have already used motv to access the TV card prior to accessing the webcam, the bttv driver is loaded. The webcam driver is loaded automatically when your webcam is connected to the USB. Start motv at the command line with the parameter -c /dev/video1 to access the webcam. Access the TV card with motv -c /dev/video0.
When connecting the webcam to the USB before the
bttv driver has been automatically loaded (for
example, by starting a TV application),
/dev/video0
is reserved for the webcam. In this
case,
if you start motv with the -c
/dev/video1 parameter to access the TV card, you might get an
error message, because the bttv driver was not
automatically loaded. Solve this problem by loading the driver separately
with modprobe bttv as the user root
. Access an overview of the configurable
video devices on your system with motv -hwscan.