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 ... -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X
