El jue, 13-10-2005 a las 18:17 -0400, Bob Goodwin escribió: > M Daniel R M wrote: > > >El jue, 13-10-2005 a las 06:27 +0200, Eric Tanguy escribió: > > > > > >>Le mercredi 12 octobre 2005 à 20:15 -0400, Bob Goodwin a écrit : > >> > >> > >>>Is there an application in FC4 that will permit the making of a still > >>>picture with a cheap USB webcam? > >>> > >>>Bob Goodwin w2bod Zuni, Virginia > > > >Camorama and camstream are two developed apps just for that purpose. > > > >GnomeMeeting can take snapshots too, as you were said yet. > > > >Also, xawtv can do that, if launched as "xawtv -c /dev/videox" where "x" > >is the number for your usb webcam device. Then just hit Ctrl+J when > >you're ready...:-) > > > >There are several other apps that can manage a webcam, but here we'd > >talking about video streams... > > > >Regards > > > >Daniel > > > > > I am still trying to make this webcam work but without much success. > The computer apparently sees it but the applications I have tried don't > and I haven't found much documentation. I have two devices connected to > the USB ports, the HP scanner works ok with FC4 but not the camera. > > $ lsusb > Bus 001 Device 003: ID 03f0:0701 Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 5300c/5370c > Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04fc:0561 Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > > CamE starts and dies apparently because it's not seeing the camera: > > $ camE > camE: camE 1.9 - (c) 1999, 2000 Gerd Knorr, Tom Gilbert > camE: grabber config: size 320x240, input 0, norm 0, jpeg quality 75 > can't load font arial/8 > can't load font arial/8 > open /dev/video0: No such file or directory > > GnomeMeeting reports that no video device is found. > > I also installed "camstream." It runs but displays no video either. It > appears that > I have something misconfigured but I don't know what? > > Any thought as to what I've missed or done wrong? > > Bob Goodwin > There are lots of webcam models and manufacturers out there, personally I've never heard anything about SunPlus Tech. (which it doesn't means too much either..;-p What you should care about is which chipset is based on your webcam model, because you're needing some Linux driver able to manage it. That's the reason those apps fail, there is no any suitable driver installed or loaded yet. Support for webcams in Linux is continuously spreading, that's due to the effort generously made by volunteers alone, almost from scratch in some cases, bear in mind this later, please. So, first you should find out which driver could solve your problem, if it exists... If not, neither despair you earlier, please... -things at this are changing almost daily- and check/follow possible new develops from time to time instead, nor complain about it. It would be better to claim first to the manufacturer in particular that sells you a product without any driver for your favourite O.S. It would be unrealistic to avoid that webcam manufacturer in particular, since almost all of them seem to do not care anything apart from Windows -and maybe Mac's- users. Have a look here: http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html It took me about 60 seconds from Google with this values: Sunplus technology webcam linux support So, the driver you need could be something named like spca"whatever". Be optimistic Bob, sure there is already lot of info about this. Regards, Daniel
