Webcams again

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Tue Feb 6 11:00:09 UTC 2007


On Monday 05 February 2007 12:15, Sander Hoentjen wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 15:53 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Thursday 01 February 2007 15:13, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> > > > In any case the real answer will be given by upstream :)
> > > >
> > > >> Thanks - at least I know a bit more about where we stand :-)
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > you can also try gideo (from ATrpms),
> > > and see what it is possible to control in the camera.
> > >
> > > I have a cheap Creative something and the brightness and contrast
> > > can be controlled, but the color slider seems to make no difference.
> >
> > That confirms what I found in ekiga.  The colour is a great deal better
> > than I can get in amsn, which points to the application rather than the
> > driver, I think.
>
> It might very well be, we use modified xawtv drivers for it.
> Do you use the fedora amsn package? If so could you test out the svn
> version? (doesn't even have to be installed, just download,
> ./configure
> make
> ./amsn
>
> If that still doesn't work good we are interested in the exact problems,
> so we might be able to fix them.
>
> Sander (Fedora amsn packager and upstream developer)

Hi, Sander.  I'm having problems with ./configure.  I've sorted some devel 
packages needed, but now I'm getting

configure: error: libpng is required

whereas yum tells me

libpng.i386                              2:1.2.10-7             installed


What am I missing?  Thanks

Anne
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