Webcam

[David VanHoose]

On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 23:02:51 +0200, Gergely Nagy
<algernon at bonehunter.rulez.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 22:09, David VanHoose wrote:
> > Greetings.  New user of Ubuntu, beginning to intermediate user of
> > Linux.  I'm having difficulty seeing my Logitech webcam anywhere.  It
> > shows up fine as a USB device in the device manager.  However, it
> > doesn't show up as /dev/video0 and I'm clear how to properly
> > configure.
> 
> I think you need the pwc module (modprobe pwc) - if that's available in
> the ubuntu kernel. However, the one included with linux is a little bit
> useless, unless you have a binary-only plugin too, or use the forked
> driver.
> 
> I strongly recommend the driver available at
> http://www.saillard.org/pwc/ . Just download it, untar it, and type
> make, and it should work (needs kernel headers, so the appropriate
> package must be installed).
> 
> Works for me like a charm.
> --
> Gergely Nagy
> 
> 

Thanks for the help.  Ended up using the driver located at
http://qce-ga.sourceforge.net/.  Seems to work OK, though I haven't
yet figured out how to adjust the picture to my liking.  That's a
project for another day...

David
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