webcam: cat: /dev/video0: Muitos arquivos abertos

[MadOrL]

Tenho uma webcam Elgin só que no linux foi reconhecida como Microdia...

Até aí tudo bem no amsn funcionou mas tentei melhora-la e só piporei  pois agora ela não funciona mais...
acredito que seja por esse motivo:

orlando@orlando-desktop:~$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 03f0:7504 Hewlett-Packard
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0c45:608f Microdia
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
orlando@orlando-desktop:~$ mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video0
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.1.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+ (Family: 15, Model: 44, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing tv://.
TV file format detected.
Selected driver: v4l
 name: Video 4 Linux input
 author: Alex Beregszaszi
 comment: under development
unable to open '/dev/video0': Too many open files


Exiting... (End of file)
orlando@orlando-desktop:~$ cat /dev/video0
cat: /dev/video0: Muitos arquivos abertos

orlando@orlando-desktop:/usr/share/amsn/utils/linux/capture$ v4l-info
open /dev/video0: Too many open files

Como faço pra tirar esse too many open files ?