F-14 and a USB Webcam -
Michael Miles
mmamiga6 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 11 23:31:43 UTC 2010
Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> 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
>
>
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/applications/Video4Linux%20Device%20Preferences?_csrf_token=843892538351ccc761885047381df75930ac151a
This has Video4linux for F14 Device Preferences
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/applications/Video4Linux%20Control%20Panel?_csrf_token=304b152d74f715eeb3da412bc064ae7229ba2104
This is the Control Panel
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