From: Lars R. <la...@ro...> - 2007-08-23 12:24:48
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I used the USB port on console-vx. I had to have a gender changer for USB, and tried both connecting the cameras directly and also via a hub. Both worked. I didn't do any soldering or anything like that on the board. I've tried with two rather old Logitech cameras, one is a 4000 pro and another is a laptop one, both could use the pwc driver. I don't know the exact names, as the cameras don't say on them. However, I had to rebuild the kernel using the menuconfig option after rebuilding the file system etc. I've never done that before, but the user interface was reasonably self explanatory, especially with the following links in addition. But since the u-boot was old, I had to change u-boot, kernel and file system, so it was a bit scary. Don't want to send it back to us for reflashing... but it worked. http://docwiki.gumstix.org/Recompiling_the_Linux_Kernel http://robotics.usc.edu/~jnaneshd/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Notes There seemed to be lots of possible drivers in the Kernel, so I expect it's a matter of playing around and finding the right one (perhaps testing it on a linux box with more drivers to see which one it uses??) Best regards, Lars Quoting Abraham Howell <ab...@ab...>: > Lars, > > Which webcam are you using? Are you plugging it into the mini-USB port? > Finally what is motion? I only ask these questions because I have spent some > time to interface a small cmos camera that communicates via the serial port > at 230400bps, but would be interested in trying out a webcam as well. > > -Regards, Abe > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:01:36 +0200 > From: Lars Roland > Subject: Re: [Gumstix-users] Webcams? > To: gum...@li... > Message-ID: <118...@li...> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Sorry. I forgot to add the gumstix-build/build_arm_nofpu/staging_dir/bin to > my > path. Works now.... > > Anyway, just a little thanks to gumstix for making such a cool product. > > I got it today and I'm already taking pictures etc. It was relatively easy to > do > based on all the good wiki docs and this email list. Thanks to everyone. > > Best regards, > Lars > > > Quoting Lars Roland : > > > Hi > > > > I'm not able to build motion, but it's probably because I'm a newbie, and > > don't > > quite know how to refer to the jpeg libraries. Any chance you can give > some > > hints (or give hints to another program or a really easy way to capture > an > > image > > from the webcams?) > > > > Best regards, > > Lars > > > > > > > > I use motion to capture images locally. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------- |