camera software

[spider200]

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 ??????

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oh yea , i would just like to thank everyone for helping me with my other problems with my computer .. thanks

[Lexicon]

Install Documentation of your kernel-source and look

 

Module use:

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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:

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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

[spider200]

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 ???

[Lexicon]

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