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giorgosc61

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From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2005-05-27

Posts: 140

How to make Creative Instant Webcam work?

Hi.

I have bought Creative instant Webcam.
Does anybody know how to make it work under Arch?

Thank you in advance.

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Legout

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From: Wuerburg/germany

Registered: 2004-01-19

Posts: 292

Re: How to make Creative Instant Webcam work?

Short howto.

1.Install and start hotplug

pacman -Sy hotplug 
/etc/rc.d/hotplug

2.Install all available webcam drivers via pacman.
And this driver
from AUR.

3. Install xawtv and test your cam

pacman -S xawtv
xawtv -i /dev/video0

TEll me if this works.

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giorgosc61

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From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2005-05-27

Posts: 140

Re: How to make Creative Instant Webcam work?

Thank you for your reply.

I have already hotplug in my system.

I did
pacman -S pwc
modprobe pwc

I downloaded
spca5xx-0.57.00-1 from AUR and makepkg
then
pacman -U spca5xx-0.57.00-1.pkg.tar.gz
modprobe spca5xx
and
[root@myhost spca5xx]# xawtv -i /dev/video0
This is xawtv-3.94, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.12-cko2-swsusp2)
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
Error: Can't open display: :0.0

Also in gnomemeeting it doesn't find any device

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giorgosc61

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From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2005-05-27

Posts: 140

Re: How to make Creative Instant Webcam work?

It worked !!
modprobe pwc
modprobe spca5xx

but I had to do
chown -R giorgos /dev/v4l
to find it in gnomemeeting.
Do you know what i have to do to have chown -R giorgos /dev/v4l applied permenantly and don't have to enter it in every boot?

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iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: How to make Creative Instant Webcam work?

just chuck the command in /etc/rc.local