Linux and USB WebCam suggestion
Hello, I'm in the process of buying a wemcam. I would like to know if any user in this group has had any success installing a USB webcam in SuSE 10? If yes what are the recommended webcam for Linux/SuSE... any link will be good also. |__|___|___|__\\|// - ?__|___|_____|___|_____| |__|___|___|__(o o)______|___|_____|___|_____| |__|___|___oOOO(_)OOOo____|___|_____|___|_____| email : ephlodur@rocketmail.com What we need is Awareness we can't get carelless. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
On Sunday 18 December 2005 5:27 pm, MindBender wrote:
If yes what are the recommended webcam for Linux/SuSE...
Logitech 3000 Pro and 4000 Pro work great with the pwc module. I have been using a Logitech 3000 Pro webcam with my Linux system for quite a while. Until recently I was running SuSE 9.2. I am now running Mepis 3.3.1. With the 2.6 kernel the pwc module is now maintained at http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/ Other pwc compatible cams are listed on http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/PWC/WorkingWebcamsWithPWC Probably the biggest change is there is no longer a separate pwcx module. The pwc.ko module is capable of the large picture by itself. In SuSE 9.2 my module was located at /lib/modules/2.6.8-24.16-default/kernel/drivers/usb/media/pwc.ko In Mepis 3.3.1 my module is located at /lib/modules/2.6.10/misc/pwc.ko For viewing the cam picture I like camstream, but you can also use xawtv. Camstream can also upload your cam shots. I like to use webcam for uploading the cam shots (sometimes it's packaged with xawtv, but I think lately SuSE has it in "V4L extras" or similarly named rpm). My cam using Logitech 3000 Pro and webcam: http://home.earthlink.net/~bryantyson/bryanscams.htm Bryan **************************************** Powered by Mepis Linux 3.3.1 KDE 3.3.2 KMail 1.7.2 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net ****************************************
I have a Logitech Quickcam 400 Pro and SuSE 10.0 and cannot get it to work on an out of the box install. I bought this camera for a teleoperated robotics project and bought it because my research indicated it would work. Using Xawtv or KDETV I get a gray screen. The Kernel finds the camera and identifies it correctly when I plug it in but I only get the gray screen. I will try taking a look at the PWC module tonight. Any hints or instructions on compiling or installing it? -----Original Message----- From: Bryan S. Tyson [mailto:bryantyson@earthlink.net] Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2005 10:15 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Linux and USB WebCam suggestion On Sunday 18 December 2005 5:27 pm, MindBender wrote:
If yes what are the recommended webcam for Linux/SuSE...
Logitech 3000 Pro and 4000 Pro work great with the pwc module. I have been using a Logitech 3000 Pro webcam with my Linux system for quite a while. Until recently I was running SuSE 9.2. I am now running Mepis 3.3.1. With the 2.6 kernel the pwc module is now maintained at http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/ Other pwc compatible cams are listed on http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/PWC/WorkingWebcamsWithPWC Probably the biggest change is there is no longer a separate pwcx module. The pwc.ko module is capable of the large picture by itself. In SuSE 9.2 my module was located at /lib/modules/2.6.8-24.16-default/kernel/drivers/usb/media/pwc.ko In Mepis 3.3.1 my module is located at /lib/modules/2.6.10/misc/pwc.ko For viewing the cam picture I like camstream, but you can also use xawtv. Camstream can also upload your cam shots. I like to use webcam for uploading the cam shots (sometimes it's packaged with xawtv, but I think lately SuSE has it in "V4L extras" or similarly named rpm). My cam using Logitech 3000 Pro and webcam: http://home.earthlink.net/~bryantyson/bryanscams.htm Bryan **************************************** Powered by Mepis Linux 3.3.1 KDE 3.3.2 KMail 1.7.2 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net **************************************** -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
IT WORKS!!! IT WORKS!!! IT WORKS!!! I downloaded the pwc module did a make then a make install then plugged in the camera and fired up KDETV and had video from the camera. Wow, it took all of 2 minutes to download the module and install it. Xawtv doesnt see the camera though, but I will work on that :) Thanks!! To the original poster, I can tell you the Logitech Quickcam 4000 Pro works under Linux :) On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 22:42 -0600, David Culp wrote:
I have a Logitech Quickcam 400 Pro and SuSE 10.0 and cannot get it to work on an out of the box install. I bought this camera for a teleoperated robotics project and bought it because my research indicated it would work. Using Xawtv or KDETV I get a gray screen. The Kernel finds the camera and identifies it correctly when I plug it in but I only get the gray screen.
I will try taking a look at the PWC module tonight. Any hints or instructions on compiling or installing it? -----Original Message----- From: Bryan S. Tyson [mailto:bryantyson@earthlink.net] Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2005 10:15 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Linux and USB WebCam suggestion
On Sunday 18 December 2005 5:27 pm, MindBender wrote:
If yes what are the recommended webcam for Linux/SuSE...
Logitech 3000 Pro and 4000 Pro work great with the pwc module.
I have been using a Logitech 3000 Pro webcam with my Linux system for quite a while. Until recently I was running SuSE 9.2. I am now running Mepis 3.3.1.
With the 2.6 kernel the pwc module is now maintained at http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/
Other pwc compatible cams are listed on http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/PWC/WorkingWebcamsWithPWC
Probably the biggest change is there is no longer a separate pwcx module. The pwc.ko module is capable of the large picture by itself.
In SuSE 9.2 my module was located at /lib/modules/2.6.8-24.16-default/kernel/drivers/usb/media/pwc.ko
In Mepis 3.3.1 my module is located at /lib/modules/2.6.10/misc/pwc.ko
For viewing the cam picture I like camstream, but you can also use xawtv. Camstream can also upload your cam shots.
I like to use webcam for uploading the cam shots (sometimes it's packaged with xawtv, but I think lately SuSE has it in "V4L extras" or similarly named rpm).
My cam using Logitech 3000 Pro and webcam: http://home.earthlink.net/~bryantyson/bryanscams.htm
Bryan
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On Sunday 18 December 2005 11:59 pm, dwculp wrote:
Xawtv doesnt see the camera though, but I will work on that :)
Try telling it the device to use, for example, xawtv -c /dev/video0 Replace video0 with the correct video device for your system. In my case it is video1 because my tuner card is video0. Bryan **************************************** Powered by Mepis Linux 3.3.1 KDE 3.3.2 KMail 1.7.2 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net ****************************************
On Sunday 18 December 2005 11:59 pm, dwculp wrote:
Xawtv doesnt see the camera though, but I will work on that :)
Try telling it the device to use, for example, xawtv -c /dev/video0
This is not the problem. the kernel-built-in pwc is an older version (version 9) which cannot give pictures larger than 160x120 pixel. If you request larger pictures, the driver gives grey pictures (Color 0x808080). If i download and install the version 10 as a kernel module (and delete the built in module) anythink work as expected. But the new driver seems not to be 100 % compatible with the old pwcx Driver, i have to initialize the driver _twice_ until it works: ioctl(fd, VID_HARDWARE_PWC); ioctl(fd, VIDIOCPWCFACTORY); and don't know why. Perhaps xawtv don't know this. But at first, try the new driver version 10. mit freundlichen Grüßen Bernd Melchers -- Archiv- und Backup-Service | fab-service@zedat.fu-berlin.de Freie Universität Berlin | Tel. (030) 838-55905
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