The probably best software for video-conferencing is "Gnomemeeting" developed by Damien S. just do: emerge gnomemeeting and everything should work. another Software that might be usable in testing out ya webcam in "xawtv". If you have got a logitech Express you need either the: qce-ga (the frame-rate is too low) or qc-usb (is better but you might have compilation problems) drivers in order to get going. I would strongly recommend the qc-usb drivers since they are far better . you can get the drivers at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qce-ga/ Remember that you have to have the video4linux drivers and USB support enabled in your Kernel in order to do so. If you don't have it, recompile your Kernel with support for the video4Linux driver as module or compiled-in. ----------- excerpt from the qce-usb readme file ---------------- How to load? ------------ You need USB and Video4Linux support in your kernel. Check that they are compiled, if not, reconfigure kernel, compile and install. It took a long time to find the Video4Linux checkbox in 2.2, it is in Character Devices / Video4Linux When you have a supported kernel, just load the necessary drivers with modprobe videodev modprobe usb-uhci # Either UHCI or OHCI, modprobe usb-ohci # loading the another will fail insmod ./quickcam.o compatible=3 (or "modprobe quickcam" if you have already installed it). If it works, you can install these lines into some startup script in /etc to load the driver every time you boot up your computer. ------------- end excerpt --------------------------------------
You compile the qc-usb driver with following commands: make clean && make install (read the README file for details) When you receive following Errormessage while compiling the qc-usb.5.1 qc-memory.c:194: too many arguments to function `remap_page_range_R69d01e73' make: *** [qc-memory.o] Error 1 you should get the qc-usb.5.0 driver and it should compile fine. if you load the module with insmod quickcam.o and everything works fine (... means you can use your device with xawtv) then copy the quickcam.o driver to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc/ with: cp ./quickcam.o /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc and run (as root) modules-update Than you shoul add following line to the /etc/modules.autoload file: quickcam You can do this by issuing this command: echo "quickcam" >> /etc/moduls.autoload #notice, its a ">>" not a ">" Then everything should be working fine. One last hint: If gnomemeeting crashes everytime you connect to the Server or any other problems occur with the driver issue the following command everytime before using the driver: qcset /dev/video0 compat=dblbuf the above command assumes that video0 is your dev-filename. Replace it with the appropriate one if this assumption isn't true. good luck! Am Mittwoch, 10. September 2003 22:30 schrieb Chris: > On Thursday 11 September 2003 01:19 am, Rex Young wrote: > > sorry, I'm not used to asking for help. > > kde, usb, logitech and what ever it might be used for. > > thanks for the sudgestion > > > >what program do i need to get my web cam working? > > > > hehe - Can you be a little more specific? Do you use kde? gnome? > > something else? > > > > Do you have a firewire webcam? usb? Have you done any research to see > > if your > > specific webcam is even usable in linux? > > > > What do you want to use the webcam for? > > > > You've asked a very open-ended question which is impossible to answer in > > any way > > which might satisfy you. > > > > ps - I noticed while trying to get my firewire webcam working that this > > question > > comes up once in a while on the forums (http://www.gentoo.org). May I > > suggest > > that this might be a good place to start your quest? > > > > > > -rex > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
