Re: New webcam problems
On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 03:31:00PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> Needing a decently decent resolution but tiny camera, suitable for
> mounting on my cnc machines to give them some machine vision, I came
> across some cheap ones that claimed over 1000 tv lines, for less than 8
> bucks USD. Since the last one of those was $22 and was about 10% the
> size of this one, worked well till an errant hold down bolt sticking up
> from the mills table ran thru its space and knocked my custom made mount
> into the next drainage, so at <8 bucks a copy, if it worked, I bought 4
> as to have spares.
>
> They arrived today, and since I had used cheese to see it they worked
> before, I did a "sudo apt-get install cheese" which pulled in just shy
> of 25 megabytes of libraries etc etc.
>
> Now I have 25 megs worth of stuff that does nothing but segfault on this
> wheezy install:
I don't know about wheezy, but on current stable:
root@tal:~# apt-cache search webcam | wc -l
41
Surely, there must be some lightweight alternatives in that result set ...
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