On December 27, 2001 10:56 pm, David Aikema wrote:
> On December 27, 2001 08:59 pm, David Aikema wrote:
> > I see there's an invalid argument error listed there... does this error
> > mean that the program is incapable of getting the webcam's capabilities?
> > Is there than any way that I can manually set things such as resolution?
> >
> > I've looked through the SxS, and the man pages pages for v4l-conf and
> > xawtv but had no luck.
>
> Kinda weird to reply to my own message but I dug up some info in the kernel
> docs: http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/doc/usb/ov511.txt.html
>
> Apparently xawtv needs to be build from source, altering a few parameters
> from the looks of things.  Might be something to add to the SxS if this
> works, although the author didn't mention encountering those problems.

Ok... I altered the parameters... and the first time I ran it it crashed my 
x-server.... I tried again and this time it opened properly, but I still have 
some of the fuzziness and half the image blinking green lines.

David Aikema
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