In Uruguay you don't have root access, so "yum" is no way! Why this packages are not included by default?
Greeting Guillermo On Vie 18 May 2012 11:55:26 Kevin Gordon escribió: > Mr. W: > > We have had lots of success doing simple things using uvc compliant cameras > on 1.5 using both cheese and guvcview on Build 883. > > Our use is mainly for microscopes, but for all intents and purposes they > are 'a camera'. > > Mikus did a lot of work for us to help getting the guvcview parameters part > set up if you want to use that as the control mechanism. If cheese is good > enough, it works pretty well right out of the box, as long as the USB > device is recognized by the XO as a compliant USB camera. Total effort on > the gnome side: Yum install cheese. Plug the microscope in after boot, > dmesg and lsusb will tell you in advance if it has been recognized. If it > is, start cheese, select the camera device and have fun. Better for stills > than video, sometimes a stutter in the video stream. Especially problematic > if you also have a USB2VGA adapter plugged in and are using an external > monitor. It seems to freeze regularly in that case > > O, and since lsusb doesn't ship by default you may have to yum install > usbutils too, to get that beast. > > We haven't done the 12.1.0 testing yet, but can accelerate that if you'd > like us to. > > Cheers > > KG > > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:20 AM, John Watlington <[email protected]> wrote: > > Does anyone have experience trying to use a USB camera with > > an XO1.5/1.75 ? > > > > Cheers, > > wad > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
