I'm using fedora 15 on my HP G42 laptop, I didn't install any particular packages for access web camera. Does the default OS support access web camera or Do I need to install any software package for that?
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Fedora should support your web camera out of the box. To verify that your camera is working, you could try executing the following command in a terminal A window should pop up with your webcam stream. If you don't have mplayer installed, you can install it by running the following command: There's also a more user-friendly webcam application called Cheese located in Applications -> Sound and Video -> Cheese If you don't have already have Cheese, you can install it by executing the following command in a terminal. |
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