Logitech Quickcam on Slackware 12.2
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From: Glyn Millington on 9 Jan 2010 04:01 Mike Spencer <mds(a)bogus.nodomain.nowhere> writes: > I haven't folowed all the details of this thread so this may be way > off base, but... > > If you used the Logitech cam on Slack 11 or earlier and you have now > ported the same driver to Slack 12, you may possibly be having > problems with the libs used to compile the driver. Slack 12 switched > to new versions of some libs (gnulibc? gnulic++?) and non-open source > software compiled with the earlier libs may fail. > > This has really pissed me off because I have two commercial packages > for which I'm compelled to stay with Slack 11 even when I've upgraded > other boxen to Slack 12. Grrrrrrr.... Just wondering - would VirtualBox set you free here? http://www.virtualbox.org/ ie run Slackware 13 on your machine (with all that juicy KDE4 goodness :-) but have Slack 11 installed as a virtual machine via VirtualBox and fire it up when you need your commercial apps? It may be overkill of course ..... atb Glyn -- RTFM http://www.tldp.org/index.html GAFC http://slackbook.org/ The Official Source :-) STFW http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&group=alt.os.linux.slackware JFGI http://jfgi.us/
From: Jim Diamond on 9 Jan 2010 13:54 On 2010-01-08 at 16:43 AST, Bud <Bud(a)bud.invalid> wrote: > On 2010-01-08, Tuxedo wrote: >> My system doesn't have the command 'lsusb' but my USB cam device appears to >> have the ID "USB Camera (046d:08d8)" as reported by the CamStream >> application. The hardware works fine in Windows on the same machine. >> >> Will test another cam. >> >> Tuxedo > You have to be root to use the command i.e. username]$lsusb Of course, this is not true. You should really try out such simple things before spreading misinformation to the rest of the world. To use lsusb as a non-root user, you can (1) put /sbin in your PATH, or (2) call it with the explicit pathname /sbin/lsusb or (3) cd to /sbin cd /sbin and then call it as ./lsusb ./sbin or (4...) any number of other ways. Cheers. Jim
From: Bud on 10 Jan 2010 02:32 On 2010-01-09, Jim Diamond wrote: I writ: >> You have to be root to use the command i.e. username]$lsusb > Of course, this is not true. You should really try out such simple > things before spreading misinformation to the rest of the world. > > To use lsusb as a non-root user, you can > (1) put /sbin in your PATH, or > (2) call it with the explicit pathname > /sbin/lsusb > or > (3) cd to /sbin > cd /sbin > and then call it as ./lsusb > ./sbin > or > (4...) any number of other ways. > > Cheers. > Jim Certainly, other ways but if you are new to Linux, you will have to explain that it can't get a result from just a user and using only lsusb. Simple to just change to root and back again. Perhaps I should have said as a user use /usr/sbin/lsusb and the result will follow. -- Bud
From: Tuxedo on 10 Jan 2010 04:15 microsys wrote: [...] > For Slack-12.2 these packages are available at SBO.. > > CImg-1.2.9 > mjpegtools-1.9.0 > wxGTK-2.8.9 > wxcam-1.0.3 > xvidcore-1.2.1 I just installed all above packages and the USB camera still does not work with camstream but the wxcam application does work! Thanks for listing these suggestions. For a package, eg. camstream or any other package where there are many prerequisites, what is a good way of finding out what already exist on a system? For example, camstream has a long list of requirements but I have no idea what packages or versions of packages are on the system already: http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-12.2/multimedia/camstream/0.27/src/slack-required Is there a command to check and report versions of installed packages and libraries, defined by exact package name or wildcard? Thanks for any tips, Tuxedo [..]
From: microsys on 10 Jan 2010 05:01
Tuxedo wrote: > microsys wrote: > > [...] > >> For Slack-12.2 these packages are available at SBO.. >> >> CImg-1.2.9 >> mjpegtools-1.9.0 >> wxGTK-2.8.9 >> wxcam-1.0.3 >> xvidcore-1.2.1 > > I just installed all above packages and the USB camera still does not work > with camstream but the wxcam application does work! Thanks for listing > these suggestions. > > For a package, eg. camstream or any other package where there are many > prerequisites, what is a good way of finding out what already exist on a > system? For example, camstream has a long list of requirements but I have > no idea what packages or versions of packages are on the system already: > http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-12.2/multimedia/camstream/0.27/src/slack-required > > Is there a command to check and report versions of installed packages and > libraries, defined by exact package name or wildcard? > > Thanks for any tips, > Tuxedo > > [..] There are a couple of ways of doing this.. Probably the best and easiest is to use pkgtool. this will list everything installed as a slackpackage and show you everything contained in the package and where it is installed. Another method is to look in /var/log/packages where you will find a listing of all slackware packages installed on the system. Keep in mind, you must either su to root or log in as root to use pkgtool. If you attempt to use it as a user the command will not be found. Just a note here for informational purposes. >>My system doesn't have the command 'lsusb' but my USB cam device appears to >>have the ID "USB Camera (046d:08d8)" as reported by the CamStream >>application. The hardware works fine in Windows on the same machine. In the previous response in this thread you posted the above information. Notice the ID "USB Camera (064d:08d8)" shown in your posting corresponds to the idVendor=046d in my dmesg listing. The idProduct I show is different than yours most likely because, while the vendor is the same, the model is different. Yours being the QuickCam notebook model where mine is the Quickcam Zoom model. |