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It seems that my webcam cannot work currently with ZM as I get the following message to a zmy request : "Error, failed to query crop: /dev/video0: Invalid argument" from zmu -q -v. I just stopped trying to use my webcam until a bug is corrected according to the following post : PostPosted:...

dclarke,
Many thanks again, I can stop fighting this bloody computer and do something more productive. I shall wait for the next release.
Best regards, jcglt

dclarke, Thanks for your post just over. I understand that you give a few lines of code which would correct an error in the "source code" ? As an ordinary user and quite newbie I don't know if I can correct something and what I should correct and I guess I shall have to wait for an upgrade...

I just ran xawtv -c /dev/video0 and got the following results. Obviously something is wrong ! But as a newbie I don't know what. If somebody could help. Many thanks, jcjglt ~$ xawtv -c /dev/video0 This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.31-19-generic) xinerama 0: 1280x800+0+0 /dev/vide...

Using a laptop with a webcam, I installed Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic and Zoneminder v1.24.2 without any problem. However the webcam works fine with xawtv and I can grab snapshots but in the zoneminder web interface the device /dev/video0 is red Monitor-1 Monitor /dev/video (0) orange red Here follow some pa...