On Monday 01 June 2009 19:56:20 Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Not always easy. I printed out the whole list of known-to-work
webcams,
and
> couldn't find one of them in the store. No box ever tells
you what
chipset
> is being used. In the end I bought a cheap own-brand webcam.
To my
surprise
> it worked with the gspca driver!
>
Then you have to find application software to use the camera. I have been
using
xawtv to record off the webcam, but it needs a font from some
unavailable
package. I loaded all the fonts which are on my FC10 partition to FC11, and
no
go. I really want a cli application, but that's another issue,
I'm back to
FC10
for now.
I haven't used the webcam for some time. When I have time to spare I'll
investigate it again, but since I have no actual use for it, it will have to
wait. All I can say is that once I had the gspca driver installed I could
use it. IIRC xawtv had stopped working by then. I believe I used camstream
in its place. Amsn was perfect for keeping in touch with the grandchildren.
Anne
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