On Monday 09 April 2007 12:11, Mark Fraser wrote:
In article 1174847841.15310.246.camel@iam.wayward4now.net,
Ric Moore wayward4now@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 16:59 +0000, Mark Fraser wrote:
I have managed to get my webcam - a Logitech model - working using the gspca drivers from http://mxhaard.free.fr/ . However, everytime there is a new kernel available I have to recompile it. Is it available on a repo like Livna have done with the nVidia drivers and kmod-nvidia.
I like leaving it as it is, so I can recompile (which takes less than a minute) to have it immediately available.
That's probably what I'll do then. It's not as if it takes ages to compile.
Secondly, even though I can view the output of the webcam in the configuration window in Kopete, I can't get anyone else to see it and I can't view anyone else's that are online.
I finally beat that problem some time ago, but for the life of me, I cannot remember exactly what I did. Have you tried ekiga yet?
I haven't tried ekiga yet, but as an update I have managed to send and view a webcam in Kopete over yahoo. Still can't get anything on msn though.
I have had my Lifetec LT9388 webcam (ov511 driver) working on aMSN. http://www.amsn-project.net/
I built it from a source tarball on FC5, and just looked at the livna repo, but it doesn't appear to be available there for FC5, or FC6.
May be worth a look on the aMSN site.
I don't think I tried the webcam on Kopete. Oh yes I did, and have just looked on Debian that has Kopete 0.12.3 (Using KDE 3.5.5), and all I get is a strange green background with an odd black sort of logo on it, when looking in config>devices with the webcam selected as default.
If you've got yahoo working with the webcam on Kopete, you've obviously got further than me, but it does work on aMSN.
Nigel.