Support for Microsoft VX-1000 webcam in fedora 7 and Fedora 8
by Leslie S Satenstein
I compiled the files that make up gspca and was able to make the webcam display. However, the quality of the picture in Fedora is abismal. On a scale of 1 to 10, it is a 1.3. This same camera under XP produces a picture that is a 9.5+
With XP, sound works. I have not been able to test sound with this webcam.
I believe that the whole area of webcam support must be revisited. Too many of us have needs to view and discuss (via skype, ekiga, msn, etc. etc.) with others across the continent or even across the ocean.
With Windows, I found a web site that describes the protocol in use for Windows (CE or other). This protocol was valid before newer webcam versions appeared.
I really switch to XP to use the webcam. In the interrim, I am learning the source and the ioctl() functions to analyse webcam signals and decoding.
The webcams are with one or two chips. One part is dedicated to the USB protocol, and the other, for the actual camera. Some webcams can send the data raw, while others will compress the data and send it with much fewer characters. The receiving driver's role is to decompress and present the output to the screen. If the output is a jpeg file, it may be recompressed to jpeg fomat.
Use camstream to test your webcam.#
Leslie
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:41:36 +0200
From: Jonathan Dieter
Subject: Re: Support for Microsoft VX-1000 webcam in fedora 7
To: For users of Fedora
Message-ID: <1198953696.4324.18.camel(a)jndwidescreen.lesbg.loc>
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On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 19:31 +0530, Avinash Prasad wrote:
> Hello there,.
> Are the gspca drivers supported for Microsoft VX-1000.I've this
> webcam and use FC7 as the OS.Do advice
I'm not sure if you're asking whether gspca supports the Microsoft
VX-1000 webcam or whether the gspca driver is in Fedora. It is not, but
it is in Livna.
Jonathan
16 years, 5 months
network interface virbr0 ...what is it?
by Ric Moore
[root@iam etc]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:85:3C:E2:A6
inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:25462 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:41652 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1953396 (1.8 MiB) TX bytes:61498098 (58.6 MiB)
Interrupt:21 Base address:0x2000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:6380 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6380 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:51498633 (49.1 MiB) TX bytes:51498633 (49.1 MiB)
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:69.72.102.116 P-t-P:209.163.125.66
Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5685 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5494 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:6675065 (6.3 MiB) TX bytes:378040 (369.1 KiB)
virbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:88 (88.0 b)
I have no clue what is hosting itself on 192.168.122.1
Do I kill it somehow and were is it? I'm looking all through /etc and
not finding it. Someone please clue me in. Ric
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16 years, 5 months
playing DVDs with totem
by Louis Garcia
just received a new DVD and wanted to play it. Fedora8 and totem said I
didn't have the proper plugin. I already have gstreamer-ffmpeg and
gstreamer-plugins-ugly from livna. Is gstreamer-plugins-bad also needed?
I do not want to change to xine or mplayer if possible. This is the
Simpsons Movie and is encrypted so libdvdcss is needed to.
-Thanks
16 years, 5 months
Firefox+flash do not load page correctly in F8 - same versions in F7 do
by Marcelo Magno T. Sales
People,
I have a problem here that I don't know how to debug. Maybe one of you
may give me an idea on how to do this.
I have several F7 and several F8 boxes here. Using Firefox 2.0.0.10 with
flash 9.0 r115 at the F7 machines, I can load correctly a page which
contains a flash application, from my bank's web site. The
application's window has four independent areas, like frames, and when
I open the same page at the F8 machines, one of these "frames" does not
finish loading (always the same "frame" stops loading, always at the
same stage). The others load and function ok.
I have the same versions of firefox and flash installed in all F7 and F8
machines. However, I've tried different versions of each with the same
results: the site loads correctly at F7 machines, but not at the F8
ones.
I don't have the slightest idea of what may be causing such weird
behavior, so I don't know how to debug it. Unfortunately, I can't send
you a link to the above mentioned application, because it's accessible
only after I log in at the internet banking site. However, if it's
usefull, I can send screenshots of the same page correctly loaded in F7
and incomplete in F8.
What has changed from F7 to F8 that may be causing this?
Thanks,
Marcelo
16 years, 5 months
Installing from the 3 DVD fedora 8 "Everything" re-spin
by Dean S. Messing
I just completed the download of the jigdo "Everything" DVD respin for x86_64.
FYI, I used the CLI command
jigdo-lite http://jigdo.fedoraunity.org/templates/Fedora-8-Everything/Fedora-8-Every...
I didn't have the original F8 so I let it download everything (no pun
intended). It took about 12 hours running three parallel jigdo's, one
for each of the 3 DVDs in the respin.
Now I have 3 DVD iso images, and I'm wondering how the installer is
going to treat them. I've never installed from 3 DVDs, just 1. I
mount it on a separate NFS-enabled machine, and point Anaconda to the
DVD iso image. Will this work with three DVD's? I don't recall if
one can even tell the installer about more than 1.
I'm not quite ready to do the install but am just getting my ducks in
a row for when I am.
Thanks.
Dean
16 years, 5 months
Jigzone
by Robert Locke
Getting ready to switch the wife over to Fedora, but there is one online
app that my be a deal breaker.
I am trying to run jigzone.com Jigsaw puzzles on F8 (all updated).
Tried on two machines. One has just IcedTea while the other has both
IcedTea and Sun JRE 1.6. Both machines play the pretty bubble test the
jigzone.com site suggests, but fail to play the puzzles.
Has anyone else been able to get this going or have any suggestions?
--Rob
16 years, 5 months
sound on mac pro
by Arzan
Hi guys, sorry fedora/linux newbie here, I was finally able to get
fedora 8 running on my mac pro, I don't know if this would be the
right place to ask this question but here goes, for some reason the
volume of my sound under fedora is really low I have all the sound
sliders turned all the way up, even with my headphones on I can
barely hear it, I mean the main tower speaker is out of the question.
I know its not a problem with my sound card as it works like a charm
under os x and XP. Any suggestions on how to fix this please.
thanks
Sam
16 years, 5 months
Something Wicked (with my hdwr clock) This Way Comes
by Dean S. Messing
As root, I just tried doing: `hwclock --show' for the first time on my
new Dell Precision 490 running F7 and it just hung. Cntl-C broke me out.
I then tried `hwclock --show --debug' and got:
hwclock from util-linux-2.13-pre7
Using /dev/rtc interface to clock.
Last drift adjustment done at 1198717263 seconds after 1969
Last calibration done at 1198717263 seconds after 1969
Hardware clock is on UTC time
Assuming hardware clock is kept in UTC time.
Waiting for clock tick...
/dev/rtc does not have interrupt functions.
Waiting in loop for time from /dev/rtc to change
and again the command hung.
I can't seem to set or read the hardware clock (except in the BIOS)
Anyone know what gives?
uname -a:
Linux medulla 2.6.23.8-34.fc7 #1 SMP Thu Nov 22 20:39:56 EST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Dean
16 years, 5 months