Webcam - Thanks for the Fish!

Matt Graham danceswithcrows at usa.net
Mon Sep 1 11:07:47 MST 2008


After a long battle with technology, wayne wrote:
> I ran luvcview and it worked, also with the help of lsusb, I was able to
> see that it was in fact being seen by the system.   Running it on
> another machine (32bit) with Skype works flawlessly and since that was
> the intent, it would appear that:
>
> I think I need to go back to 32bit - is there a "easy" way via
> adept,apt,synaptic???  Or am I looking at a OS reinstall?  :-(

You have to reinstall to switch from x86_64 to i686 or vice versa.  
Fortunately, this is easy and doesn't take a whole lot of time.  Just back up 
all the stuff in your /etc that you care about, and make sure your /home 
and / are separate.

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