spider200 Posted July 21, 2006 Report Share Posted July 21, 2006 I have a sony vaio VGN-FJ270B and i have removed windows and am now running solely on Linux Mandriva 2006. The laptop I have has a motion eye camera installed just above the LCD screen of the monitor and I know windows has software that can use the camera but I was wondering if their is software that can use the camera now.. Is their software for this camera ?????? Something must exist, i use gtkam for my digital camera, so something must exist for this right ?????? \ oh yea , i would just like to thank everyone for helping me with my other problems with my computer .. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexicon Posted July 21, 2006 Report Share Posted July 21, 2006 (edited) Install Documentation of your kernel-source and look Module use:----------- In order to automatically load the meye module on use, you can put those lines in your /etc/modprobe.conf file: alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 meye options meye gbuffers=32 Usage: ------ xawtv >= 3.49 (<http://bytesex.org/xawtv/>) for display and uncompressed video capture: xawtv -c /dev/video0 -geometry 640x480 or xawtv -c /dev/video0 -geometry 320x240 motioneye (<http://popies.net/meye/>) for getting ppm or jpg snapshots, mjpeg video This is not large fragment documentation from my kernel-multimedia-2.6.14.....Lex Edited July 21, 2006 by Lexicon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spider200 Posted July 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2006 yea okay i am new so i am confused on what your telling me. what do i do with this information just enter it in terminal or what ??? I figured that some type of software already existed that i could just upload ????? Is this the only way ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexicon Posted July 22, 2006 Report Share Posted July 22, 2006 Here is all Documentation for You camera. I have USB camera and use streamer, this is console program for record movie and write single jpeg frame. Listen manual for streamer. ....Lex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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