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Okay installed this on a box with a bespoke 2.4.26 kernel (weird disk hardware) so had to do a bespoke kernel build (kernel-package is a must for keeping kernel builds sane - how did I manage before it?).
This page was VERY useful in the exercise - -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/hardware/pwc.html
Beyond this I needed to know that /var/log/XFree86.0.log revealed that the xfree86-dga module was being loaded without any direct reference to it in the XF86Config-4 file.
I did a "modprobe pwc size=sqcif fps=30 compression=0" because I was using the kernel 2.4.26 driver "pwc" and there is no "pcwx" at this point in kernel history for licensing reasons (a lot of politics here). Which gets me a perfectly good if slightly small webcam picture, to get VGA I need to get a later version of the driver which has a "free software" decompression module.
I've scheduled this for when I upgrade to 2.6, I think anyone else doing this would be well advised to go to a recent version of the 2.6 kernel immediately to get the best from the webcam. But I just need some images for a web page at the moment, so 2.6, and bandwidth hungry images can wait for me, beside ADSL don't get here till at least July :(
Haven't tested the built-in microphone yet. Hmm where is the source selection in "Sound Recorder"?
Discovered my bios (it's current config anyway) doesn't warn, but silently does nothing, if you have non-booting floppy in the drive (it has been 3 months since the last reboot - a lot of time to forget about a floppy). Caused a couple of minutes of wondering what was up with the reboot.
For Debian you must also remember to add the user to group "video" (I was already in "audio") to get permissions to use the camera. You must remember to login again after doing this as well <doh - why do I always forget that>.
Currently "xawtv" gives me a very iffy green picture with odd stripe effects at the top. Any hints on where to start on that one? Gnomemeeting says "oh you have a Philips webcam" and works without me even fiddling with the settings.
$ xawtv This is xawtv-3.94, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.26) /dev/video0 [v4l]: no overlay support v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" to type FontStruct ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=5): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=4): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=1): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=7): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=13): Invalid argument
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