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jamjikescairo-1

This is the one I mentioned Mercury does not work with .

Given that, I would recommend installing the version that includes the VM.

rarsa

followed your sound advice and now Mercury installed fine with the few restart issues you talked about.

Had lots of trouble getting the JMF files via torrent which I managed to set up as per your instructions, but sadly I kept getting unfinished packages all the time even after leaving the connection open for 5 hours - would never get past 6.5M - and finally ran a search and could download it off http://70.25.151.230/JMF.zip

I am very happy with Mercury as the webcam functions well (after starting it manually with a bash script modprobe'ing etc).

However I now have an issue with my sound input system as I will not get any sound off the microphone. I posted a thread somewhere else in the forum.

cheers

gon

Good luck with the mic.

thanks rarsa actually there is something in the mixer system that is not working as I cannot record any sound input via line in either.

gon

Well I am googling my head out trying to find spca5xx.o
This way I can compile the latest and greatest plus have a read me file. Someone mentioned above they made a small script that automates all the confusion. Could you please post that little script ?
And please rarsa provide a link for the homepage for spca5xx.o

Great job! Hope to see a wikki page for this how to.

Here it is: http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html

The author actually updates the version every month.

I am trying this under 107a

* First I tried with the java 1.0.5 prepared by G2
Nope for some reason was unsuccessful

* So I tried with their own stable java (had this before with java progs - there own one is more stable as they say

* Signed up with Mic. . . Micr . . . "The Company that must not be named" "VoldeSoft" (I think it is)

* Got a basic Mercury working OK

* downloaded and unzipped the spca5xx.o

* Now seem to be stuck with this - time for some seaweed tea and maybe I will try again

# cp /root/spca5xx.o /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/spca5xx.o
cp: cannot create regular file `/lib/modules/2.4.29/kernel/drivers/usb/spca5xx.o ': No such file or directory

Mercury seems a very pleasant program and I have to agree with your pragmatic approach. Do we want video conferencing? Yep. Then we have to compromise. I must admit I did feel unclean after signing up with MS Passport control - think I will go and browse some porn sites to remove the taint . . .

Really looking forward to the Dotpup

Lobster wrote:* Now seem to be stuck with this - time for some seaweed tea and maybe I will try again

# cp /root/spca5xx.o /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/spca5xx.o
cp: cannot create regular file `/lib/modules/2.4.29/kernel/drivers/usb/spca5xx.o ': No such file or directory

Lobster, simply look at the filestructure of Puppy in Rox, then you will see this should work:
cp /root/spca5xx.o /lib/modules/2.4.29/usb/spca5xx.o

Mark

Ok. This is almost working!!

Alright I installed the mercury messenger without java as I already
have java installed and mercury works. Instead of installing
mercury to /root/ I installed to /opt/

So my question is where do I extract or put the files mentioned below?
Extract NativeLibs-linux.zip to /root/Mercury/jre/lib/i386

MU wrote: cp /root/spca5xx.o /lib/modules/2.4.29/usb/spca5xx.o
Mark

OK did that and got here



eh . . . am I nearly there? Have a logitech camera installed but not sure what else to do? More commands?

More testers needed!

klhrevolutionist wrote:So my question is where do I extract or put the files mentioned below?
Extract NativeLibs-linux.zip to /root/Mercury/jre/lib/i386

Wherever your jre/lib/386 folder is. I cannot answer because it depends on where you installed Java.

Lobster wrote: eh . . . am I nearly there? Have a logitech camera installed but not sure what else to do? More commands?

Follow the instructions in this post
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?p=12043#12043

Please notice that in that post it indicates to go and follow the instructions in the Mercury web site. The instructions there are fairly clear and I didn't find the need to repeat them.

Click for larger image.

Well it is not the best quality. But with time.........

Thanks to rarsa and all the tester's and whomever else helped.

Great! At least it's working for some else than me!

You just need to focus your camera.

depmode: command not found ?

Err, that is what screwed me once as well.
Rarsa must have had the same problem we all have sometimes.
We end up misspelling.

So here

# cp /mnt/mydata/spca5xx.o /lib/modules/2.4.29/usb/spca5xx.o
# depmod -ae
# modprobe videodev
# modprobe spca5xx

Now if you want this to load everytime you boot
add these lines to rc.local

depmod -ae
modprobe videodev
modprobe spca5xx

thanks, that helped. Now the JMF files, I'm getting the same problem with the NativeLinux...zip file not wanting to unzip.

hi klhr

I think you might have been referring to me and my very simple script, in which case here it goes -

[code]cp /root/spca5xx.o /lib/modules/`uname -r`/usb/spca5xx.o
depmod -ae
modprobe videodev
modprobe spca5xx[/code]

hope it helps

cheers G

lol yes, depmod instead of depmode. I was copying and pasting commands.

As far as I remember you had to download the NativeLinux-libs using bittorrent. (or ctorrent). When you do that, the file appears to be complete while it is still downloading. You may need to continue the download until it's complete.