Mounting a USB Web Camera

[Laurence]

On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 18:15 +0000, Laurence wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 00:40 -0500, Johnathan Bailes wrote:
> > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 23:40:32 -0500, Chet Ranaweera
> > <ckranaweera at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I have a USB web camera. Does anybody know how to mount it?
> > > 
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> > Got to love udev and all the new stuff man.
> > 
> > Why?
> > 
> > Because you should NOT have to mount it.
> > 
> > Sit back at your desktop and plug in your camera and wait about 5 to
> > 10 seconds and it should mount up as a usb storage device and gthumb
> > will pop up and even ask if you want to Import your pictures.
> > 
> > Btw, I said yes and damn thing just launched ghtumb but did not pull
> > the pictures off the camera to my Pictures directory.  But it was
> > pretty easy to Select All and drag them off into the Pictures folder.
> > 
> 
> Don't think it quite works that was for a WEB cam!
> 

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How to get a web cam working:-

it depends on the camera, I have a phillips toucan, which uses the
ov511/518 chip,
for this you have to use the ov511 driver & camchip addon.
and use 'insmod' to load them into the  kernel

what sort of webcam do you have?
there is a howto around, but I can't remember the URL at the mom, anyone
else help?

Laurence