webcam problems

[The Mishanator]

i have a webcam and i cannot get it to work with fedora 11.
i was wondering if there are drivers that i need and where to get them or if its supposed to just work like everything else that i plug into the usb.
thank you

[The New World]

Install "cheese webcam booth" it should find your webcam .

[The Mishanator]

i do but the colors are all messed up. any ideas?

[AdamW]

What model's your webcam? If you can deal with the console, can you run 'lsusb' and paste the output here? Thanks.

[The New World]

Try installing camstream and use that to alter your webcam. Alternately Kopete and Gyachi have controls to adjust the image.

[The Mishanator]

it's a gigawaer pc vga camera (AKA the cheapest one at radioshack)
i got it to work with camstream (thank you THE NEW WORLD)

but now it doesnt work with amsn (it really never has).
it keeps saying something to the effect of "you dont have a video capture device connected," even though i have it and it's workind with camstream

[The New World]

I don't know what config you have running, personally I use both gnome and kde but using kopete my video shows up perfectly for my yahoo messenger I tried amsn just to see what it was like but it didn't find my webcam either btw its a 046d:09a1 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Communicate MP/S5500
I think kopete can use hotmail too:)

[The Mishanator]

i was thinking about installing windows live messenger client with wine or something but so far that hasnt been going very well. all you can download is the exe that downloads the rest for you but its not working. (i think ms tries to make their software not be compatible with linux)

ill check out kopete (does it work on gnome?)

[The New World]

yes kopete works on gnome but I think you need to install the kde environment
yum groupinstall kde
you find kopete under the banner of kdenetwork if you search either yumex or the add/remove software progs if you want to try without a full kde install.

[The Mishanator]

i tried
yum groupinstall kde

heres the output (im guessing something went wrong)

[root@mvs-linux Mikhail]# yum groupinstall kde
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
updates/metalink | 16 kB 00:01
* fedora: mirror.cogentco.com
* livna: wftp.tu-chemnitz.de
* rpmfusion-free: mirror.web-ster.com
* rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.web-ster.com
* rpmfusion-nonfree: mirror.web-ster.com
* rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.web-ster.com
* updates: mirror.cogentco.com
adobe-linux-i386 | 951 B 00:00
livna | 2.4 kB 00:01
http://mulx.playonlinux.com/fedora/yum/base/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
Trying other mirror.
rpmfusion-free-updates | 3.8 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates | 3.8 kB 00:00
updates | 4.4 kB 00:00
Setting up Group Process
Checking for new repos for mirrors
fedora/group_gz | 370 kB 00:32
livna/group_gz | 453 B 00:00
rpmfusion-free/group_gz | 1.5 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates/group_gz | 1.5 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree/group_gz | 1.0 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/group_gz | 1.0 kB 00:00
updates/group_gz | 373 kB 00:02
Warning: Group kde does not exist.
No packages in any requested group available to install or update

[The Mishanator]

i tried
yum groupinstall kde

heres the output (im guessing something went wrong)

[root@mvs-linux Mikhail]# yum groupinstall kde
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
updates/metalink | 16 kB 00:01
* fedora: mirror.cogentco.com
* livna: wftp.tu-chemnitz.de
* rpmfusion-free: mirror.web-ster.com
* rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.web-ster.com
* rpmfusion-nonfree: mirror.web-ster.com
* rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.web-ster.com
* updates: mirror.cogentco.com
adobe-linux-i386 | 951 B 00:00
livna | 2.4 kB 00:01
http://mulx.playonlinux.com/fedora/yum/base/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
Trying other mirror.
rpmfusion-free-updates | 3.8 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates | 3.8 kB 00:00
updates | 4.4 kB 00:00
Setting up Group Process
Checking for new repos for mirrors
fedora/group_gz | 370 kB 00:32
livna/group_gz | 453 B 00:00
rpmfusion-free/group_gz | 1.5 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates/group_gz | 1.5 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree/group_gz | 1.0 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/group_gz | 1.0 kB 00:00
updates/group_gz | 373 kB 00:02
Warning: Group kde does not exist.
No packages in any requested group available to install or update

[The New World]

maybe I got the code wrong :confused: I usually add KDE through yumex and have no problem btw did it not allow you just to install kdenetwork?

[The Mishanator]

nope, it did not allow that.

[marko]

yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"

is the right way (it has to be spelled out just like that including the double quotes)

[The Mishanator]

thanks marko, that worked just like it should.