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Yesterday I set up Ubuntu 9.10 desktop i386 then installed ZM 1.24.1 from the repositories. I'm getting a blank image in the feed window and the same error in zmdc.log which repeats at regular intervals: 11/12/09 09:00:12.072537 zmdc[1473].INF [Starting pending process, zmc -d /dev/video0] 11/12/09 ...

So you got zoneminder working on 9.04??? What did you do to make that work? Spent hours tearing my hair out and banging my head against the computer, much like last night :? But that time it got me somewhere. The main difference with my Ubuntu 9.04 setup was it had an older version of ZM which didn ...

I just set up ZM 1.24.1 from the repositories on a clean install of Ubuntu 9.10 and am frustrated by the same error. Webcam's "source" label is red and the feed window just displays a blank image. This is what appears in /tmp/zmwatch.log: 11/11/09 23:47:16.071227 zmwatch[1643].ERR [Can't get shared ...

Does ZoneMinder work with USB Video Class webcams (e.g. current Logitech Quickcams, Creative Live Cam Optia)? I understand any of these so-called "driverless" cameras should work with GNU/Linux thanks to the Linux UVC project, but there's little information out there about whether they specifically ...