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February 25, 2006
Webcam on Ubuntu
You can tell by my expression that getting everything working is not quite easy, yet.
First, I followed instructions from somebody in Belgium. A nice scrip, though I didn't know that lsusb would tell me what I needed to change in the Perl line. (This QuickCam Messenger is product id 08f6.) Also, the latest version of the driver is 1.1 rather than 0.8.
Next, I needed to get gcc-3.4 installed. The one by default is 4.0.
After a bit of playing around, I can see the video feed. Yet I cannot get the audio worked out. Will have another look later.
Posted by Mark at February 25, 2006 03:37 PM
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Seems like you forgot step zero for installing a webcam on a Linux box:
Prerequisites: Send the wife and 3 kids away on a one week ski vacation.
That's the problem with technical procedures, nobody ever tells you exactly how hard it will be.
Posted by: Andy at February 28, 2006 03:35 AM
What's funny is that I've had the big technical hurdle (of getting the hardware recognized and operational) more or less solved since 3:37 pm Saturday. (No, I didn't know how to access the mic then, but it was working as soon as I knew where to look.)
Yet I *still* have not figured out how to make the sound and video work reliably. I suspect there's some magic to work in .asoundrc, but that's just a guess.
We stand on the shoulders of giants, and so do they. The whole thing is amazingly solid for such a rickety design.
Posted by: Mark at February 28, 2006 09:15 AM