Re: [Hampshire] Cheap Webcam..................but will it wo…

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Author: Alan Bell
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Cheap Webcam..................but will it work
Cheese is also nice
http://www.gnome.org/projects/cheese/
or apt-get cheese
and you can run cheese -v from an xterm to see what is going on.

Alan.


Tony Whitmore wrote:
> Tim wrote:
>
>
>> 03/10/08 20:20:58 titan kernel usbcore: registered new interface driver gspca
>> 03/10/08 20:20:58 titan kernel Linux video capture interface: v2.00
>> 03/10/08 20:20:57 titan kernel usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using
>> uhci_hcd and address 9
>> 03/10/08 20:20:57 titan kernel usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
>>
>> lsusb return the following relevant line:
>>
>> Bus 003 Device 009: ID 093a:2460 Pixart Imaging, Inc.
>>
>> Now looking at the syslog output I guessed that gspca is the driver so I had a
>> quick google and found the following site
>>
>> http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html
>>
>> Now as far as I know the gspca driver is load (according to lsmod), but now I
>> am a bit lost as to what to do next.
>>
>
> It looks like it's been detected as a v4l2 device (Video For Linux 2).
> It's good that it's been detected but bad because not many webcam
> applications support v4l2, only the older v4l.
>
> However, you should be able to fire up Ekiga, run through the config
> wizard and see yourself using the camera!
>
> Tony
>
>