On 11/4/06, Arnie Stender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have an Intel CS330 Cam I used to use on my Windows box and it worked
well with Net Meeting. It's USB and I plugged it in on my CLFS/BLFS
workstation thinking I would be able to see a new device to point my
xine or totem at and that hasn't happened. I am assuming there isn't any
support for the device either in the kernel or HAL/Dbus/udev or all of
the above. Can someone tell me maybe for the second or third time (I
can't remember if I asked this question before) where I need to go to
find out what support I need in the kernel and applications I mentioned
to make the camera work on my system and secondly, what are my options
for doing net meeting type communications over the Internet on Linux?
I don't have a video camera, but I think I understand what goes into
supporting it. First, you need to have Video For Linux support in your
kernel. That would be in Device Drivers -> Multimedia devices -> Video
For Linux. That enables CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV and CONFIG_V4L2. You probably
want to enable the V4L1_COMPAT option, too, as some applications
aren't up to speed on the new interface yet.
Then you've gotta go looking down through Video Capture Adapters to
find a driver for your device. You probably want to read in the
Documentation/videoforlinux/ directory.
Assuming that you get your driver built, I think udev will create
/dev/video0 with video group ownership. But I'm not that familiar with
the CLFS udev rules. Assuming the device has been created by udev and
you have the whole hal/gnome-volume-manager stack, then you can
specify an action in the Removable Drives and Media Preferences in the
Camera tab. You can use the lshal utility to see if hal is finding the
device or not.
If you've got gnome and you want to do video conferencing, then Ekiga
(formerly gnome-netmeeting or something like that) is what you want to
build.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/gnome/ekiga.html
I've heard great things about this program, but mostly in the context
of the SIP VOIP part. I think Randy builds it, though, and I've never
heard him say anything negative about it.
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Dan
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