F-14 and a USB Webcam -
Ranjan Maitra
maitra at iastate.edu
Sat Dec 11 22:35:08 UTC 2010
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 13:12:12 -0600 Michael Miles <mmamiga6 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 11:48:24 -0600 Bob Goodwin
> > <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On 11/12/10 12:01, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:04:23 -0600 Bob Goodwin
> >>> <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On 10/12/10 05:38, Tim Waugh wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 04:43 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Where do I look for more level adjustments?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> I've found that ekiga has a "whiteness" adjustment control which has had
> >>>>> good results for me. It does seem that getting this right automatically
> >>>>> isn't working quite right.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'm using this:
> >>>>> ID 041e:4053 Creative Technology, Ltd Live! Cam Video IM
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Tim.
> >>>>> */
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>> The thread here inflamed my secret desire for having an ancient
> >>> low-cost camera work with linux again. This has only previously worked
> >>> with windoze and i gave up after several weeks of trying to do this.
> >>> Anyway, here is the output of lsusb:
> >>>
> >>> Bus 004 Device 003: ID 041e:401b Creative Technology, Ltd
> >>>
> >>> I installed ekiga, and am lost as to what to do with it. I type:
> >>>
> >>> ekiga
> >>>
> >>> and the terminal just stares back at me.
> >>>
> >>> I tried
> >>>
> >>> ekiga-helper
> >>>
> >>> and the terminal prompt came back after around 12-13 seconds. The only
> >>> command starting with ekiga that I did not try was ekiga-config-tool
> >>> and it was screaming not to left out of the fun, so I did the following:
> >>>
> >>> ekiga-config-tool
> >>>
> >>> Usage: ekiga-config-tool OPTION
> >>> Fixes problems with the Ekiga settings
> >>>
> >>> --clean remove all user settings
> >>> --install-schemas install schemas with default settings (run as root)
> >>> --clean-schemas remove schemas with default settings (run as root)
> >>> --fix-permissions fix permissions of GConf repository (run as root)
> >>>
> >>> I tried the last two, to no avail.
> >>>
> >>> Any suggestions? I looked around at the ekiga wiki/manual: nothing good
> >>> came out of that either. At least the parts that I looked at were for
> >>> people who were already running ekiga: not dumb enough to get stopped
> >>> at the first prompt....
> >>>
> >>> I am not wedded to ekiga, only to something that might work with my
> >>> webcam (and there is no reason to believe that that might happen also).
> >>>
> >>> Best wishes,
> >>> Ranjan
> >>>
> >> guvcview [yum] looks like a good bet. It's working with this
> >> old, inexpensive Logitech camera which in the past functioned
> >> only with Windows! Ekiga probably would work but like you I
> >> gave up on it since I was getting off on a tangent configuring
> >> it when what I was really interested in was just the video
> >> settings for the webcam.
> >>
> >> Good luck.
> >>
> >> Bob
> >>
> > Ok, thanks, Bob! However no such luck: I get the following.
> >
> > guvcview
> > guvcview 1.4.2
> > Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
> > Cannot connect to server socket
> > jack server is not running or cannot be started
> > video device: /dev/video0
> > opening '/sys/class/video4linux' failed: Error opening directory '/sys/class/video4linux': No such file or directory
> > Unable to detect devices on your system
> > ERROR opening V4L interface: No such file or directory
> > Init video returned -1
> > Segmentation fault
> >
> > Is there some rpm that I am missing?
> >
> > Best wisehs,
> > Ranjan
> >
> >
> Video4linux is the rpm you are missing
> On F12 I use Video4Linux device preferences which can be installed via
> add/remove software or yum
> It has the desired brightness and contrast settings that you need
There is such an rpm in F14?
sudo yum list \*ideo\*
Available Packages
gallery2-flashvideo.noarch 2.3.1-2.fc14
fedora gnome-video-effects.noarch 0.1.0-1.fc14
fedora mythvideo.x86_64 0.24-2.fc14
rpmfusion-free-updates oggvideotools.x86_64
0.8-2.fc14 fedora perl-Class-InsideOut.noarch
1.10-2.fc14 fedora perl-MooseX-InsideOut.noarch
0.105-1.fc14 updates perl-Object-InsideOut.noarch
3.56-3.fc14 fedora videodog.x86_64
0.31-8.fc12 fedora
Ranjan
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