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Author Topic: gspca - web cam driver for your sweet-ass Debian GNU/Linux box  (Read 603 times)
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« on: January 29, 2008, 01:34:22 PM »
spca5xx used to be the way to get your web cam rolling on Linux.  I guess it's no longer as gspca has supplanted it.  This is what I did yesterday to get my camera working:

Plugged in my camera, fired-up a terminal...

$ su
# aptitude update
# aptitude install module-assistant
# m-a prepare
# m-a a-i gspca
# modprobe gspca
# aptitude install camorama
# exit
$ camorama

Damn !! When did I get so fugly!?
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« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2008, 03:21:54 PM »
gspca used to take care of my other camera but I've got a new laptop with a hp web cam built in.

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