Re: [LUG] Debian does 99.9% of what I want ... Was: Thursdays Meeting / Debian Questions - cam

[Paul Sutton <zen14920@xxxxxxxxx>]

My kanotix set up has 2.6.11 kernel and my cam works fine even in 
gnomemeeting,  It's a labtec web cam.  Any idea how to getr linux to 
give feedback on what make it is, and other information.  So I can 
forward to you.   One thing I do get is quickcam : frame lost being 
scrolled down the screen in ALL the terminal windows,  (not good) but it 
does work, perhaps it's not killing the cam process when gnomemeeting 
exits,

If it's the development version of debian would the kernel hacking 
options be enabled by default in the kernel, so you have some keyboard 
commands available such as sysrq + whatever, to do certain tasks,  I 
think these were in there for debugging and getting out of crashes,  or 
what about logging in from another computer via ssh and then killing the 
crashed process.  I have done that before, and should really set it up 
again just in case  I need to log in via my laptop.

Paul


Tom Brough wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 15:56, Simon Waters wrote:
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> > > Having talked to Simon I have had another go at installing Debian. I
> > > dusted off my old Woody disks and this time I did a network install
> > > followed by apt-get update.
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> > Next time remind me to tell you to use the latest Debian Installer ;)
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> Hey Hey ... You forgot that you did actually mention that at the meeting
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> > Currently rc3 is recommended
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> > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
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> > I assume the install you did gets the Woody installer, which always
> > Woodys weak spot, and avoids the last 2 years or so of progress in
> > installing Debian.
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> > Still if you don't need mirroring, and don't have "weird hardware" it
> > doesn't make much difference. Although I've never had to fiddle to
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> > X work with the later installers, although I have had to fiddle to
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> > X work as I wanted it to, that is more to do with me being a
> > perfectionist (failed).
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> Many thanks all that contributed to Debian Questions .... A short while
> after posting my questions I thought to myself "well Ive got this far I
> might as well try Sarge" so I downloaded the "netboot" image and waited
> 4 hours while it fetched desktop and installed it ... but it was worth
> the wait !!!!
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> X was a pain again ..... but got it sorted eventually and with the nv
> driver so I guess I have got graphics acceleration now.
>
> Spent some time looking at the packages in synaptic..... boy in the
> sweat shop syndrome kicking in again .... 
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> usbpen "just worked TM". 
> openmcu, gnugk and gnomemeeting all there compile and ready to install.
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> sn9c102 webcam detected after installing 2.6.8 kernel.
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> fired up Gnomemeeting ... set parameters config tests went ok....
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> clicked on the camera icon and then total death ... no blue screen, no
> warnings, no /var/log/messages no panics....  just total death ......
> (guess thats why they call it testing).
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> Well Im going to stick with it (debian) now because its got everything I
> need and more ....
>
> but I would like to have my webcam working so maybe I will look for a
> 2.6.11 kernel .... any suggestions Simon ?
>
> As an aside Howard Lunn from Churston Grammer popped in quite out of the
> blue today ... just back from his holiday in Italy. He was telling me
> about Steve ? who had been helping him extend the original K12LTSP
> config in Churston. It seems that they have gone over to using samba as
> the main network file store rather than using native Windows based
> shares, and have done a lot of work on "fail over" for the LTSP server
> and other services provided there.
>
> So I asked again about hosting a meeting at Churston, and he didn't say
> no ! which is encouraging.
>
> Tom.
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