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Thursday, August 17, 2000, at 10:01AM

By Eric Richardson

Ok, so today I bite the bullet and dive full-force into doing some much needed system work. I compiled a 2.4.0-test6 kernel, merged my SCSI devices onto one controller, and got my old capture card working again. All fine and dandy so far.

So now I figure I'll hook up a camera and use this machine for webcam stuff again, right? Heh. Click for info.

In theory, there's absolutely nothing hard about trying to get this to work. I should just have to slightly hack the client-cam script to work with streamer on Linux, and then point my webcam server to it. No problem.

Unfortunately, something's acting up. The socket connection between client-cam and webcam is hosed the bottom of the image (chopping off some bits at the end). In total weirdness, it always seems to stop at whole kilobytes. 4kB... 8kB... 20kB... It doesn't care where it cuts, as long as it's on a whole kB.

Utter weirdness. I'm baffled, and really don't fell like messing with it right now.

I'll try to fix it sometime soon. For now, the images on coredump are just chopped off.