Webcam application in FC-4?

[Bob Goodwin]

M Daniel R M wrote:

>El jue, 13-10-2005 a las 06:27 +0200, Eric Tanguy escribió:
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>>Le mercredi 12 octobre 2005 à 20:15 -0400, Bob Goodwin a écrit :
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>>>Is there an application in FC4 that will permit the making of a still 
>>>picture with a cheap USB webcam?
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>>>Bob Goodwin   w2bod   Zuni, Virginia
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>>You can use camE. it takes picture and upload it to where you want and
>>all in background.
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>Camorama and camstream are two developed apps just for that purpose. 
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>GnomeMeeting can take snapshots too, as you were said yet.
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>Also, xawtv can do that, if launched as "xawtv -c /dev/videox" where "x"
>is the number for your usb webcam device. Then just hit Ctrl+J when
>you're ready...:-)
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>There are several other apps that can manage a webcam, but here we'd
>talking about video streams...
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>Regards
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>Daniel 
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I am still trying to make this webcam work but without much success.  
The computer apparently sees it but the applications I have tried don't 
and I haven't found much documentation.  I have two devices connected to 
the USB ports, the HP scanner works ok with FC4 but not the camera.

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 03f0:0701 Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 5300c/5370c
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04fc:0561 Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 

CamE starts and dies apparently because it's not seeing the camera:

$ camE
camE: camE 1.9 - (c) 1999, 2000 Gerd Knorr, Tom Gilbert
camE: grabber config: size 320x240, input 0, norm 0, jpeg quality 75
can't load font arial/8
can't load font arial/8
open /dev/video0: No such file or directory

GnomeMeeting reports that no video device is found.

I also installed "camstream."  It runs but displays no video either.  It 
appears that
I have something misconfigured but I don't know what?

Any thought as to what I've missed or done wrong?

Bob Goodwin