Philips Webcam

New info

• Driver: http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/
• Setpwc: http://www.vanheusden.com/setpwc/
  • There is also a Debian package
• Wiki: http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/PWC/WebHome

Old info

http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/

copy pwcx-i386.o to /lib/modules/usb/

In /etc/modutils/webcam:

post-install pwc /sbin/insmod --force /lib/modules/usb/pwcx-i386.o >/dev/null 2>&1  || :

update-modules

Kernel

• multimedia devices -> video for linux: M
• USB support -> USB Philips cameras (pwc.o)
• USB support -> USB Audio support (audio.o)

mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0
chown root:video /dev/video0
chmod 660 /dev/video0
ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video

Softs

• camstream
• xawtv -geometry 352x288-0+0 (and fix FPS to 15)