Hi Greg, On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Greg Dickie wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry if this is a newbie question but I was a bit surprised at how > hard it is to get a webcam working in linux (just like the old days with > any hardware ;-). I just purchased the above-mentioned camera and went > through a few different drivers trying to find one that would recognize > this camera before finding uvcvideo. That seems to work but now when I > run luvcview I get a black picture. Actually its just very dark as I > discovered when I pointed it directly at a light. I tried cranking uo > the brightness and the contrast but I cannot seem to get a picture out > of it even in full light. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
When pushing brightness up, do you see any change in the image ? Do you get error messages in the kernel log ? You could also try your luck on the www.quickcamteam.net forums. Best regards, Laurent Pinchart _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
