usb web cam

HI friends...
I'm using Red Hat 8.0 and now I get a "creative go plus" USB webcam...
but I don't how use it over Linux
Can you help me please?

thanks

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I don't know that particular camera ... but as a general matter, you want to find a kernel driver that can access it. That in turn is pretty mch a function of its internal chipset ... in practice, when I was trying to get a Webcam working, I just tried all the "USB Multimedia Devices" choices until I found one that worked.

If you're using a precompiled kernel, see if they are included. If you're compiling your own, look in (with "make menuconfig") the

USB Support
USB Multimedia Devices

list.

Once you have the camera module working, you can use gqcam to try it out. There are probably other apps too, but I'm not really up to speed on this stuff any longer. A quick search (in the Debian package list under "webcam") turned up these names, but I can't tell you anything about them other than what's here:

came - Rewrite of the xawtv webcam app using imlib2 camstream - collection of tools for webcams and other video-devices cqcam - Color QuickCam (PC/Parallel) control program
feh - imlib2 based image viewer
gkrellkam - GKrellM plugin that displays a periodically updating image gqcam - GTK Webcam control
motion - V4L Capture Program supporting Movement Detection vgrabbj - grabs a image from a camera and puts it in jpg/png format webcam - capture and upload images
webcamd - Capture images from video devices

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There were several models of this camera, IIRC. If your's is CT6840, then it's like mine. At the kernel level, I have Video4Linux and USB OV511 options built as *modules* (not built into the kernel,it doesn't work that way for me). At boottime,in my modules.autoload, I specify ov511, which autoloads the camera module and the dependency, videodev. Once those are in place, you should be able to use any reasonable V4L client to do captures, either motion or still.

.brian

Brian P. Bilbrey <[email protected]>
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