Simple question.....not so simple answer :(
Burhan Hanoglu
hanoglu-ueTEkjIHS1VWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org
Sat Feb 12 20:56:58 UTC 2005
Brian K. Garel wrote:
>I have a USB webcam...where do I have to do to make this thing work?
>
>
Unplug it and open the terminal, do " su - " to be root and then do "
tail -f /var/log/messages " .
Plug your webcam and see what happening on the terminal. You should see
something like " ...device has registered as videoX..." . If so, you can
use it with any utility such as Gnome Meeting.
BURHAN
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