webcam help for a newbie...

emeraldforce · 07-21-2002, 08:47 PM

I'm stuck in quite a dilemma...
Recently I've been given a Logitec Quickcam Express webcam and I wanted to set it up on my Redhat Linux 7.3 system...

The problem is I don't know where to start.

Could someone give me a push in the right direction? Maybe a website?

Thanks everyone!

Mik · 07-22-2002, 06:16 AM

Well first of all you should get the kernel to recognize it. There should be a kernel section devoted to video4linux devices.
Then you should probably search around www.freshmeat.net to find some webcam programs you would want to use. There are lots of different ones.

I've used this one before which seemed rather nice and wasn't very hard to compile and get running:
http://linuxbrit.co.uk/camE