built-in webcam

Hervé Fache Herve at lucidia.net
Mon Dec 18 15:28:12 UTC 2006


Does lsusb or lspci (from a console) give you any info on the chipset?

Hervé.

On 12/18/06, nutchanat sattayakawee <diiar at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Ed Lau <ed.lau at mail.ee> wrote:
>
> > > How can I check if it detects my webcam?
> >
> > at the Konsole, try:
> >
> > mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l
> >
> > Or if you want e.g. 800x600 picture, try:
> >
> > mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l -vop scale=800
> >
> >
> > Certainly, you need to install mplayer, which is
> > available, if you
> > enable universe/multiverse repositories at
> > /etc/apt/sources.list
> > Then install mplayer and its codecs.
> >
> > Usually webcam is device like /dev/video0
> > If you have also TV-card at the same time, then
> > there might be webcam
> > as /dev/video1, etc.
> >
>
> Thank you for that. It seems that it doesn't detect my
> webcam. Does anyone know how I can make my webcam
> work? Do I have to install webcam driver? It worked
> when I had Windows but I had to install the driver.
>
> Thank you for your help
> Diiar
>
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