Getting fuji to work as webcam
Joel Jaeggli
joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu
Mon Dec 19 00:58:38 UTC 2005
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 12/18/05, Joel Jaeggli <joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu> wrote:
>>
>> If you put it in webcam mode what does your machine detect when you plug
>> the camera in (presumably not a mass storage device)? There are a number
>> of usb video capture chipsets supported by linux, though it's entirely
>> possible that whatever the fuji has isn't one of them.
>>
>> joelja
>>
>
> Nothing shows up in KDiskFree. I can set the camera to turn on in Mass
> Storage mode, with I _can_ mount in KDiskFree, but not in webcam mode.
> In webcam mode nothing changes when I turn the camera on- as if it
> isn't there.
you would want to plug it in and then type:
dmesg
at the command-line, if it's a video capture device it isn't going
to show up as a filesystem rather it will be a device, /dev/videofoo
if it does you can use it with gnomemeeting or xawtv or something.
joelja
> Dotan Cohen
> http://technology-sleuth.com/technical_answer/what_is_a_router.html
>
>
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