Philips webcam

[Søren Hauberg]

Hi,
Laurent Darrambide was nice enough to help me offlist (he had problems 
posting to the list). With his help I managed to get the camera working.
[Copying from Larent's mail]
Close gnomemeeting and rmmod -f pwc

then

a) install libpt-plugins-v4l
b) remove pwc.ko from /lib/modules/yourkernel
c) get http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/files/pwc-10.0.7a.tar.bz2
d) compile
e) copy pwc.ko to  /lib/modules/yourkernel/misc
f) depmod -ae
g) modprobe pwc fps=30
h) restart gnomemeeting
i) in edit,preferences,video devices, choose v4l as video plugin, large
as size
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You also need to install linux-image to be able to compile pwc.ko. While 
this isn't exactly plug'n'play it does work for me.

/Søren

Daniel Coquette wrote:
> Sorry, I've no solution to tell you. I just reply so that you wont feel 
> alone.
> 
> Just to say I've the same problem. The ToUCam works well with on hoary 
> but on breezy, it display a gray image. It does this with all video 
> application (gnomemeeting, camorama, etc.). May be the V4L package is 
> broken ? (V4L2 works because I can grab TV with tvtime).
> 
> -- 
> Daniel
>