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Howdy folks. Today I purchased a Logitech QuickCam Deluxe for Notebooks. Not my best purchase by any means, but something my daughter, who lives in D.C., wanted me to get one so we can video talk.

I have been trying here, and reading how-to after how-to on getting a QuickCam to work. None of them have been successful for me. So far I have tried Camorama and it complains about not being able to locate/use /dev/video0. /dev/video0 is there, but Camorama doesn’t like it. I have tried Xawtv and still no success. The system (Kubuntu Gutsy) sees the camera and doesn’t report any errors, but it just will not work. Here is some of the output I have gotten from the typical locations:

lsusb

Bus 005 Device 003: ID 046d:09c1 Logitech, Inc.

dmesg

[ 1818.228000] usb 5-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
[ 1818.608000] usb 5-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 1818.876000] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[ 1818.888000] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
[ 1818.956000] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device <unnamed> (046d:09c1)
[ 1818.976000] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[ 1818.976000] USB Video Class driver (v0.1.0)

lsmod

uvcvideo               42884  0
videodev               29312  1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat            15364  2 uvcvideo,videodev
v4l2_common            18432  2 uvcvideo,videodev
snd_usb_audio          81024  0
snd_usb_lib            17920  1 snd_usb_audio

If you have any ideas, a great tutorial somewhere, or know how I can get it to work, I would greatly appreciate your assistance. Thank you!

Not because I have finished 3 out of the 4 courses for the 8 week summer semester, but because 2 of those courses required the use of Windows. No more! The GUI design course utilized VB because, well it is so simple to do. And the ASP.NET class is well, ASP.NET

Now, with that out of the way. I know Mono is out there, and Mono Develop, however it was damn near impossible for me to follow along using Mono instead of the glorious Visual Studio (actually I am a fan of Visual Studio, if only Linux had such a powerful IDE). I would like to take some time out and become familiar with Mono and Mono Develop now that I have finished the class and realize just how easy ASP.NET coding really is. So if any of you have experience in doing so, please guide me a little bit on if it is possible. Maybe the problem I had was because ASP.NET in Visual Studio is drag-and-drop like crazy!

Oh, and also, when is somebody going to come up with a Qt version of Mono Develop? I would love to run it on my laptop, but there are just way to many libs, so I run it on my desktop at home that runs Gnome. Thanks!

OK my lazywebbers with IPv6 and Python experience, this goes out to you!

I am creating an application right now, with Python of course, and I need to set an environment variable to be always on when a user logs in. I have messed with the os.environ and the os.putenv and what not, but it doesn’t work permanently. This application doesn’t do anything more than a few tests and then sets the environment variable if the tests return true. Is there an easy way to write to ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile to enable the variable, and then later on if the user wants they can disable the variable which would either remove the variable all together or would set it to False?

Another question I have is with IPv6. Is there an easy way to test and see if your network is an IPv6 network or an IPv4 network? Right now I am grepping /var/log/syslog for ‘no IPv6 router present’ and printing the ‘no’. If it is ‘no’ then the network is IPv4, and if it returns 0, then it is an IPv6 network. This is rather hackish I feel, but it does work. Just wondering if there is a better method to do this simple task.

Thanks everyone!