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[Surfer Dude]

Although the webcam on the eee is rated at 640x480, I can only seem to capture still images at 320x240, I've searched the forum, read the manual, and looked through the options in ucview, and still no sucess, there must be a simple solution, but I have not found it, hence this rather dumb question, thanks.

[mrmot]

I'd like to know as well. ;)

[Surfer Dude]

Just to add, I have also searched the wiki, no luck.

bios - stock 401

model - 7c

Edited by Surfer Dude, 20 March 2008 - 12:16 AM.

[Surfer Dude]

I have not found anyway of changing the resolution from 320x240 using the default software on the eee, so ended up having to edit the ini file to give me a resolution of 640x480, this is not very elegant because if i want to reduce it again to say 320x240, another ini editing job is required. anyway, if anyone else needs to do this, the file to edit is /etc/ucview/default.ini (as root)

Edited by Surfer Dude, 20 March 2008 - 01:35 AM.

[mrmot]

This is now wikified. Thanks!

[Niel1952]

It shouldn't be too difficult to write a script for this. The simplest would be to have three files /etc/ucview/default.ini, /etc/ucview/default.ini.320x240 and /etc/ucview/default.ini.640x480 and putting the relevant information in the latter two files. The script would then copy whichever of the latter two files you wanted over /etc/ucview/default.ini.

I'm sure there are cleverer ways of feeding the information into the ini file by means of a script, however.

[chadork]

I might seem really stupid but I really need the help if someone doesn't mind...I see all of the etc/ucview/default.ini talk and I really need to change my resolution but I don't know how to do this. I've typed this into the cmd window. But it just keeps saying that it can't find the file path specified...if someone could walk me through this I would greatly appreciate it...just for an fyi...I don't even know what root means. Thank you!!

[Niel1952]

There are articles on the wiki explaining how to use terminal to edit files, including editing them as root, for example, http://wiki.eeeuser....ide_to_terminal