Getting fuji to work as webcam

Michael Wright michael_wright at aapt.net.au
Mon Dec 19 10:03:49 UTC 2005


Are you using a normal Camera ? It should enable it self when you plug
it in the usb drive. 


On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 16:58 -0800, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > On 12/18/05, Joel Jaeggli <joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> If you put it in webcam mode what does your machine detect when you plug
> >> the camera in (presumably not a mass storage device)? There are a number
> >> of usb video capture chipsets  supported by linux, though it's entirely
> >> possible that whatever the fuji has isn't one of them.
> >>
> >> joelja
> >>
> >
> > Nothing shows up in KDiskFree. I can set the camera to turn on in Mass
> > Storage mode, with I _can_ mount in KDiskFree, but not in webcam mode.
> > In webcam mode nothing changes when I turn the camera on- as if it
> > isn't there.
> 
> you would want to plug it in and then type:
> 
> dmesg
> 
> at the command-line, if it's a video capture device it isn't going 
> to show up as a filesystem rather it will be a device, /dev/videofoo
> 
> if it does you can use it with gnomemeeting or xawtv or something.
> 
> joelja
> 
> > Dotan Cohen
> > http://technology-sleuth.com/technical_answer/what_is_a_router.html
> >
> >
> 
> -- 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Joel Jaeggli  	       Unix Consulting 	       joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu
> GPG Key Fingerprint:     5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2
> 




More information about the users mailing list