Hi, I have no idea what the Webcam application is. But it seems to do no streaming. The camera has an autoexposure setting that needs some time to kick in. So taking a single picture will do you no good if you did not set the exposure to something reasonable before. Check the /proc interface to control the camera. But note that in more recent kernel-versions this was disabled due to a security problem. -Peter On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 12:55:52PM +0200, Patrick Deman wrote: > Hi all, > > Is anyone able to explain me the following : > > -I use an Creative Webcam II Par on a RH7.2 kernel 2.4.7-10 linux box. > -Webcam works ok but the images it produces are much-much to bright > (overexposed) > -When i start xawtv the images starts the same way as above BUT it > immediately decreases the brightness to an acceptable level . > It more or less 'auto-adjust' the camera-output. > > Is there something I'm missing or looked over ?? > > THX > > Pat > > > -- Feeling amorous, she looked under the sheets and cried, "Oh, no, it's Microsoft!" ------------------------------- Email: Peter_Pregler@xxxxxxxxx