Hallo, Arif Driessen hat gesagt: // Arif Driessen wrote:
I normally stick to the forums but I've come here because I fear this is going to be a little too in depth. (I shall post the answer to the forum afterwards however).
I know the GEM developers have discussed this over here: http://www.mail-archive.com/gem-dev@iem.at/msg00098.html
But I'm not a GEM developer! :)
My issue is, [pix_video] won't see my camera under any conditions (in GNU/Linux), whilst mplayer tv:// in the terminal or the Cheese Webcam Booth are both very happy to. I simply don't know where to begin. But really really desire this feature (it's one of the main reasons i bought the eeepc 701)
Running eeebuntu lxde beta 1 (a cut down ubuntu/debian)
Is this a common problem? Are there some standard procedures to fixing this? like reinstalling certain packages? e.t.c.
I suppose your version of GEM doesn't support cameras with video2linux2 support.
One quick thing to try would be to "aptitude install libv4l" and then preload the compatibility library for V4L1 apps by doing:
$ export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/vl1compat.so $ pd -lib Gem
Otherwise try to get a Gem that supports v4l2, for example by recompiling it after installing libv4l-dev, too.
Ciao
Frank