Need the light from my webcam
- Inicie sesión o regístrese para enviar comentarios
Hi everybody!
I just started using Trisquel as my first GNU/Linux experience. I just didn't want to be another person jumping on the Ubuntu/Linux Mint bandwagon and try something really based on free-software instead.
I need a video-chat software to keep my long-distance relation going so I downloaded immediately Ekiga yet neither Ekiga nor Cheese didn't manage to light the embedded-flash of my onboard webcam on my netbook when I turned them on which was automatically taken care of on Windows.
Is there anybody that might help on this problem?
Thanks in advance.
What model webcam/netbook is this? When you say embedded flash is that some light on your laptop which lights up your face? Does the camera itself work other then this light part? How is this normally controlled? Is it a software thing (it lights up when software activates it) or is there some switch/keyboard controls on your netbook?
" uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB 2.0 PC Camera (18e3:9508)
[ 9.514328] input: USB 2.0 PC Camera as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/input/input7" This is the message about the model of the webcam I'm getting when I run dmesg command on the terminal. My netbook is a Turkish brand called Exper but as far as configuration and software goes, I can tell that any hardware didn't need a specific software to be functional as some netbook brands such as HP goes.
Sorry about my terminology, that's right, to be precise I'd meant the flash bulb on my netbook which lights up my face and the camera works just fine with Cheese. Normally it was activated automatically whenever the webcam is in use by any IM-client such as Skype or Windows Live Messenger and there are no controls on the netbook keyboard or around the webcam instead to be manipulated manually.
Ok, well so far this is interesting and unfortunately hard for me to diagnose because I don't have a webcam. It seems actually a lot of people have the opposite problem where they can't get the LED to turn off.
You could try this as a temporary fix. Try installing guvcview (http://packages.trisquel.info/slaine/guvcview) which allows you to adjust things like brightness and contrast.
If only my only problem was that I can't get the LED to turn off :P
I have only 1 question for now: Do I really need the guvcview when I can already change those parameters in Cheese?
I am a translator!
There are USB-lights for laptops, that are meant to make work easier in a totally dark environment. You could use those as a workaround. It might even turn out to be a better solution, than the flash of the webcam, since you can adjust the angle of the light separately to the angle of the camera.
That's a neat suggestion to be frank and I would've given it a shot but today I wanted to try to connect another webcam that I'd bought from the Skype store through a USB port and the LED on that one worked just fine which is curious for me. Although I must add that on this webcam I have the same problem the other way around; its LED is lit up from the moment I connected it on and won't shut down in any case :S
El mar, 30-08-2011 a las 03:29 +0200, ozgurdoe escribió:
> That's a neat suggestion to be frank and I would've given it a shot but today
> I wanted to try to connect another webcam that I'd bought from the Skype
> store through a USB port and the LED on that one worked just fine which is
> curious for me. Although I must add that on this webcam I have the same
> problem the other way around; its LED is lit up from the moment I connected
> it on and won't shut down in any case :S
Could you add them to h-node.com, it would be great to document all the
hardware we can.
--
Luis A. Guzmán García
¡Se Libre! -- http://fsfla.org/selibre
The Hardware Database Project-- http://www.h-node.com
Distribuciones libres de GNU/Linux -- http://ur1.ca/3e8gu
No, no me encontrarás en Facebook -- http://www.fsf.org/fb
GPG Key: EB153FAF
I most certainly will. I wanted to do it the first day I received your reply but it was a little bit complicated to do for me until I discovered a software on Trisquel to show me the informations needed to fill out the h-node forms yet now I'm face-to-face with another problem where I can't even get my Trisquel to load :'(
- Inicie sesión o regístrese para enviar comentarios