Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Creative Webcam problems

[Norman <norman elliott ntlworld com>]

On Sunday 26 Oct 2003 19:37, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 27 Oct 2003 7:04 pm, Norman wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have a creative webcam model PD1001c and am not able to get
> > it to work with gnomemeeting. Does anyone have any problems
> > with it or does it work with your system?
> > I have Mandrake Linux 9.1 kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdk
> > using module ov511 and libpwlib 1.5.0-14mdk
> >
> > Gnomemeeting crashes as soon as I try to alter colour or
> > other controls. The best I can get is for it to display a
> > picture of my choice and sometimes ( about 1 in 20 tries ) to
> > allow me to test the video. I once got it to show a highly
> > saturated green/red picture with apparently no blue content.
> >
> > tia,
> > Norm
>
> Norm - assuming your webcam is ok in other apps, have you tried
> it running as root?  With Mandrake 9.1 some of us have been
> trying for a while, with little success as user, but picture
> available as root.
>
> Anne
Thanks, I should have said that it was only as root that any of 
this worked and I only got it to work once, and only once with a 
very poor picture with xawtv.
 Norm