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author: einar
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- General
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date: "2006-02-12T14:10:20Z"
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slug: webcam-on-linux
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title: Webcam on Linux, success!
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I have this [Trust Mini-Webcam WB-1200p](http://www.trust.com/products/product.aspx?artnr=13405) since my younger brother gave it to me as a present for my last birthday. It's a decent webcam, pity it has a CIF sensor and not a CCD one, but it's still OK for daily use. Until now there wasn't a decent Linux driver around, and so I was forced to boot into Windows (which I almost do not use now, save for Final Fantasy XI). Most of the few drivers around had little or no documentation, were binary-only, or looked completely unmantained. Then I took a look at [spca5xx](http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html) again. This driver was born to support the SPCA webcam chipsets (like Creative's PC-CAM 600) but over the time it grew bigger and now supports a whole load of different cameras.
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Ubuntu has an outdated version that doesn't recognize my camera. I tried first downloading the most recent snapshot from the site, but it threw a bunch of errors after compiling (i.e. it wouldn't run) I then decided to get the most recent Debian package and install it with module-assistant. And it **worked**! Finally I can use my webcam on Linux and avoid using Windows even more.
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