webcam support

[ubuntu_demon]

It's improving, but it's still poor.

In 5.04 I couldn't get webcams to work. Now in 6.10 they work, but wierdness still pops up -- like the smaller picture option not showing a smaller picture but rather the upper-left quarter of the large picture. Pretty funny.

Not that anyone wants to look at or IM me anyway, but you never know, someday I may actually have a friend somewhere!

LOL

[ubuntu_demon]

Kopete does work properly with my webcam while amsn doesn't (I haven't tested it yet but someone else has the same one).

[ldcole]

How did you get your webcam to work? I first downloaded easycam2 and tried that but got "Dependency is not satisfiable: camorama"

I then tried to download camorama and install it but of course I got "Dependency blah blah blah bonobo-activation"

So I went and downloaded and installed easycam 1.35. That installed but when I try to run it as root I get "n: creating symbolic link `/lib/modules/2.6.15-26-386/build/linux-headers-2.6.15-26-386' to `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-26-386': File exists
Failed to fetch http://blognux.free.fr.debian/dists/...le/Release.gpg Could not resolve 'blognux.free.fr.debian'
Failed to fetch http://blognux.free.fr.debian/dists/...86/Packages.gz Could not resolve 'blognux.free.fr.debian'
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
/usr/bin/easycam: line 88: /root/Desktop/easycam: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/easycam: line 89: /root/Desktop/easycam: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/easycam: line 90: /root/Desktop/easycam: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/easycam: line 91: /root/Desktop/easycam: No such file or directory
chown: cannot access `/root/Desktop/easycam': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `/root/Desktop/easycam': No such file or directory"

When I run as a normal user I get

"ln: creating symbolic link `/lib/modules/2.6.15-26-386/build/linux-headers-2.6.15-26-386' to `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-26-386': File exists
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the list directory
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?"

It finds the camera, but it just doesn't run.

[nyxtwilight]

sorry to bump an old thread but i know people are still looking for an im for linux with webcam support

i found one today called qnext. www.qnext.com
its in java n the only thing is u need a qnext account.
basically u download it and stuff and u make an account its really quite fast acctually n u can add accounts for msn, yahoo, aim, icq jabber. but u can only video conference with someone thats got a qnext account.

i havent acctually tested out the webcam bc i ant get mine to work. i tried the sound out today n my bf could hear me clearly but the sound comin back from him was hard to understand bc it kept going away n comin back. itd be good to have somene else try it out too. i know my connection is bad n im having problems with drivers on my comp.

hope that helps

[poofyhairguy]

sorry to bump an old thread but i know people are still looking for an im for linux with webcam support

i found one today called qnext. www.qnext.com
its in java n the only thing is u need a qnext account.
basically u download it and stuff and u make an account its really quite fast acctually n u can add accounts for msn, yahoo, aim, icq jabber. but u can only video conference with someone thats got a qnext account.

i havent acctually tested out the webcam bc i ant get mine to work. i tried the sound out today n my bf could hear me clearly but the sound comin back from him was hard to understand bc it kept going away n comin back. itd be good to have somene else try it out too. i know my connection is bad n im having problems with drivers on my comp.

hope that helps

Recently the Linux kernel has added much webcam support:

http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquir...35-usb-webcams