tommi wrote:

THIS IS THE MOST SIMPLE WAY TO LAUNCH AMSN WITH WEBCAM SUPPORT

This will allow you to launch amsn with a working webcam. This is the most simple way of doing this as it only comprises of 5 very simple steps and you will need NO additional software

Heres how its done:

1- ctrl alt T

2- type in the console window   "sudo bash"   then press return (never add the quotes in the console/terminal)

3- type in the console window   "kate /usr/bin/amsnwc"   then press return

4- in the text editor window that will appear add this line   "sudo echo 1 > /proc/acpi/asus/camera | /usr/bin/amsn"   then save and exit text editor

5- type in the console window   "chmod a+x /usr/bin/amsnwc"   then press return

Thats it done

now just type   "amsnwc"   (and press return) in a terminal to launch amsn with webcam support or add   "amsnwc"   to you start menu (if you use adv desktop or the start menu hack).


Hope that helped

Tommi

Tommi, may I ask which version of aMSN you are running - I've got 0.95 and it absolutely refuses to recognise the EEEs camera (yes it is turned on via wrapper script !)

Thanks.

Hey guys. Back when I tried it, I had to use the SVN version of AMSN to get it to work with the cam. The latest release version was not working.

It should work if you do the following:

1. Install the dependencies

I believe the dependencies are: docker tcltls tk8.4

I got mine from the Debian Etch repository. If you've already added those repositories, you can just: sudo apt-get install docker tcltls tk8.4

You can also download and install just the dependencies you need without messing with repositories:

sudo bash
wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/docker/docker_1.4-3_i386.deb
dpkg -i docker_1.4-3_i386.deb
wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/tcltls/tcltls_1.5.0-4_i386.deb
dpkg -i tcltls_1.5.0-4_i386.deb
wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/tk8.4/tk8.4_8.4.12-1_i386.deb
dpkg -i tk8.4_8.4.12-1_i386.deb

2. Install AMSN

I used the SVN version from Nov 6th. They seem to have a page here to walk you through getting and compiling it from SVN. If you don't want to compile it yourself, you can grab the one I compiled:

sudo bash
cd /opt
wget http://www.indiscrimi.net/andy/amsn.tar.gz
tar xfz amsn.tar.gz

This will install it into /opt/amsn/

3. Turn on the camera

If you don't want to use the good old echo command (echo 1 > /proc/acpi/asus/camera), I included with my precompiled version a simple wrapper script around kdialog to control the camera. You can run it by typing: /opt/amsn/bin/camcontrol

The best way to control the camera is probably the systray applet mentioned at http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:controlcamera though. :-)

4. Run AMSN

If you're using my precompiled one, open a new terminal and try: /opt/amsn/bin/amsn

If you run it from a terminal, you see the error "attempt to provide package tls 1.5 failed: package tls 1.50 provided instead". I think this is harmless. 1.5 and 1.50 are probably the same version? :-)

After it starts up, you can find the webcam setup at Account menu -> Preferences -> Others tab. Scroll to the bottom and there will be a button that says "Edit audio and video settings".

I don't think there's anything to change in the webcam wizard... if you want you can just keep hitting "next" until you're done. Then save your settings.

When you are chatting with someone, the second-from-the-right toolbar button will share your cam with them.

I think that's all you need to get AMSN working with the cam... :-)

audiozv wrote:

if I used the higher resolution,  it would cause the picture to shift all over the place and go from normal colours to green ever so often.

How often is "every so often"? Does it do it in the setup wizard too? I haven't seen this on mine... it seems stable at high resolution.

What version are you using? The very newest SVN?

Hmm, that sucks. I don't suppose it works any differently if you try my already-compiled version?

audiozv wrote:

no i just tried using your compile and it does the same thing. I was wondering would u think updating the bios would help with this problem in anyway?

Unknown, but I can tell you that I have never updated mine. :-/

NickW wrote:

tommi wrote:

THIS IS THE MOST SIMPLE WAY TO LAUNCH AMSN WITH WEBCAM SUPPORT

This will allow you to launch amsn with a working webcam. This is the most simple way of doing this as it only comprises of 5 very simple steps and you will need NO additional software

Heres how its done:

1- ctrl alt T

2- type in the console window   "sudo bash"   then press return (never add the quotes in the console/terminal)

3- type in the console window   "kate /usr/bin/amsnwc"   then press return

4- in the text editor window that will appear add this line   "sudo echo 1 > /proc/acpi/asus/camera | /usr/bin/amsn"   then save and exit text editor

5- type in the console window   "chmod a+x /usr/bin/amsnwc"   then press return

Thats it done

now just type   "amsnwc"   (and press return) in a terminal to launch amsn with webcam support or add   "amsnwc"   to you start menu (if you use adv desktop or the start menu hack).


Hope that helped

Tommi

Tommi, may I ask which version of aMSN you are running - I've got 0.95 and it absolutely refuses to recognise the EEEs camera (yes it is turned on via wrapper script !)

Thanks.

I just used the latest version via autopackage. You can download it from the amsn home page, worked fine for me. Sorry that i didn't first check my method with an older version/repo version.

Tommi

Last edited by tommi (2007-12-10 10:02:55 am)

PC83UK wrote:

I've "installed" the new 0.97 version via the aMSN homepage (after the "new version available" dialogue box comes up whenever I run aMSN) but whenever I run aMSN, it's still the old version (0.95?)... Do I need to uninstall this before installing the new version?

Either that, or, if you know what directory it installed the new version into, you could give the full path to that installation's amsn binary.

I managed to get working via oinker's stuff (thanks oinker!) but the only problem is that when I go into the audio/video setup, unless I select "choose low-resolution webcam", there's no next button!

Last edited by PC83UK (2007-12-10 3:13:59 pm)

BIOS: 0401
Build Date: 10/17/2007
EeePC Version 1.0.1
Build Date: 2007-10-19 13:03

NickW wrote:

Since we know that there are at least two BIOS and EEE PC build versions out there I 'spose it "could" be related. PC83UK and Oinker could you please report build/BIOS versions please?

Also a white 4G here... seems to be identical to yours:

BIOS: 0204
BIOS date: 10/05/2007
Software version: Eee PC 1.0
Build date: 2007-10-09 10:32

No, my problem isn't that it's unstable. My problem is that in the wizard, unless I check the "use low resolution camera", there is literally no "next" button. The actual bigger display of the camera is fine, it just doesn't allow me to select it.