Comments on: How to configure webcam in Debian Linux

By: Wii

Wii — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:02:44 +0000

Nowadays a lot of webcams work “out of the box” with ubuntu or other linux versions.

By: sunil sanghee

sunil sanghee — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:11:24 +0000

i want to download tvtuner for linux (debian)

By: JOTA

JOTA — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:55:06 +0000

VERY GOOD!! 18/07/2009
I USE A WEB CAM GOTEC ( LEADERSHIP ) – DEBIAN LENNY 5.0.2 Kernel : 2.6.26-2-686

$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.26-2-686 module-assistant build-essential gcc-4.1-locales gcc-4.1-multilib libmudflap0-dev kernel-package

$ sudo aptitude install gspca-source camorama

$ cd /usr/src
$ sudo tar -jxvf gspca.tar.bz2
$ cd /usr/src/modules/gspca/
$ sudo make
$ sudo make install
$ sudo depmod -a
$ sudo modprobe gspca
$ camorama

By: Lost

Lost — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:08:27 +0000

make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/modules/gspca CC=cc modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.7′
scripts/Makefile.build:46: *** CFLAGS was changed in “/usr/src/modules/gspca/Makefile”. Fix it to use EXTRA_CFLAGS. Stop.
make[1]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/gspca] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.7′
make: *** [default] Error 2

By: Lozan

Lozan — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:49:37 +0000

@LordLuPach. Try it this way:

sudo aptitude install gspca-source
cd /usr/src
sudo tar -jxvf gspca.tar.bz2
cd /usr/src/modules/gspca/
sudo m-a prepare
sudo m-a a-i gspca
sudo modprobe gspca

@Aran-P: either su or use sudo (like in my post to LordLuPach)

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:38:54 +0000

Thanks for the guide everything was going really well until

jonathan@Darnay:~$ camorama
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module “gnomebreakpad”: libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
jonathan@Darnay:~$

complete noob… tried searching on the error but didn’t understand any of the posts..

By: Bob Morningstar

Bob Morningstar — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:28:09 +0000

Great how to. Worked like a charm on a Creative Webcam NX. El cheapo camera. But a great validation how-to before diving into Zoneminder software.

Thanks!

By: Rickard S

Rickard S — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:52:19 +0000

Works like a charm!!

Thanks!!

By: suro agung

suro agung — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:33:57 +0000

I still can not run my web cam, modprobe syntax not permanently execute, after manual probing, the camorama still got an error because /dev/video0 not found, how to fixed this?

By: aran-p

aran-p — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:17:28 +0000

I can’t move or extract to src. I get the following message:

“You don’t have the right permissions to extract archives in the folder “/usr/src”

By: LordLuPach

LordLuPach — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:01:57 +0000

When i try to execute “make” (where there is supposed to be no errors) it gives me this one:
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/modules/gspca CC=cc modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.24-1-amd64/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [default] Error 2

why is this? i tried doing an ls /lib/modules to see if 2.6.24-1-amd64 existed and it does but not the build folder or whatever it is…:S, so why is this happening??? I tried this same tutorial on my other computer and it worked perfectly :S
By the way..i am kind of a newb at all this

By: Antonio Sanchez

Antonio Sanchez — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:05:11 +0000

sudo depmode -a

The correct command sintaxis is:

sudo depmod -a

This HOW-TO is very helpful. Thanks a lot.