I have coriander in the debian machine, I configured that computer about 8 months ago, left it in an expo and only got it back this week, so details about how I got it working are gone from my memory. However, in pure:dyne's leek&potato livecd a basic apt-get install coriander will get it working.

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Jaime Oliver <jaime.oliver2@gmail.com> wrote:
do you have coriander working?
from what i remember it wasn't that hard to compile or get the libraries.

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:45 AM, adrian goya <adrian.goya@gmail.com> wrote:
> The coriander approach sounds like a great idea, this camera works no
> problem under it and you get total control over its functions.
> It would be out of  my league to try to make that work myself, but I can
> help with testing if that's of any use.
>
> adrian.
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:02 AM, Jaime Oliver <jaime.oliver2@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Well, I'll send the details as soon as i get a hand of the computer
>> where i use it.
>>
>> From what I remember, I expected to find the device in /video0 and
>> when I sent pix_video the dev /video0 I did't get an error message,
>> but I did't get an image either. When I try /video1 however i get
>> device doesn't exist or similar message.
>>
>> I should get back to you with more precise errors soon.
>>
>> J
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:54 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig@iem.at>
>> wrote:
>> > Jaime Oliver wrote:
>> >>
>> >> have you tried coriander?
>> >> I know it is the way to make firewire cameras work in linux using
>> >> libdc, but had no luck interfacing with gem. it is something I've
>> >> putting off for a while,
>> >
>> > it seems like i don't have any device that properly works with
>> > coriander.
>> > however, from what i read, coriander can create a videoloopback device
>> > which
>> > can then be used by Gem as an ordinary "v4l" device.
>> >
>> > have you tried that?
>> > if it doesn't work, how does it fail?
>> >
>> > fgmadr
>> > IOhannes
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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