On 11/23/2009 12:42 PM, fred smith wrote: ...
the webcam works (for some definitions of "works"), but... I can fire up cheese and see myself on the screen as I move around. it will take still photos. but when I tell it to record a movie the subwindow where the video should display goes black for many seconds, then every once in a while (30 seconds or possibly longer) it will display a still image, then wait a long while before updating the screen with another one. if I let it "record" for a minute or two then stop it and play back, the playback is just like what I saw during recording.
It's the encoding of the video that takes resources. On my 901 cheese runs at >180% CPU time during the recording. You can lower the resolution in preferences, and it will actually do a recording. Or try some other software? mplayer will display from the camera with: mplayer tv:// so maybe mencoder can be used to make a recording? ...
so, what experiences have the rest of you had on eeepc with F10/F11/F12? And does anyone have any suggestions on how to make it work?
I had F11 on mine where I've partitioned the 4G+16G disks into one logical volume. That was painfully slow. "Luckily" my preupgrade to F12 ruined my system (I had cleaned /boot, tune2fs -r 0 /dev/sda1, it rebooted and started the upgrade. It stopped after 175 packages, and left me an F11½ system. I could neither continue the upgrade or go back) so I did a fresh installation. I did a minimal installation with / on the 4G and /home and swap on the slower 16G disk. I've moved and symlinked /var/cache and /usr/share to /home to get more space on /. F12 now works much better than F11. Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Mobile: +45 22 12 53 25 Email: mk@xxxxxx Homepage: http://www.crc.dk -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
