Hello All,
I have a problem with installing ARToolkit.
On my laptop I installed one of the Philips USB webcams. I think it's
TouCam Pro. It works fine, I can see the output on the screen (using
streamcam).
I compiled ARToolkit 2.61 choosing "video4linux" when prompted by
Configure. It compiled fine. Yet running a simpleTest (or anything else)
returns this:

bash-2.05a$ simpleTest
arVideoOpen: channel# is not valid. 

Could anyone tell me what I am doing wrong. I suppose that it does not
see the device? I have:
bash-2.05a$ ls -l /dev/video
crw-rw-rw-    2 root     root      81,   0 Aug  5 17:11 /dev/video

Any ideas?

Also, recently there was a question about the list archives. If there is
something like that, I would also like to know how to access it. Perhaps
this question have been already addressed?

regards,
pawel

>bash-2.05a$ simpleTest
>arVideoOpen: channel# is not valid. 

Please change include/AR/config.h or config.h.in like:

#define   DEFAULT_VIDEO_CHANNEL       1
--->
#define   DEFAULT_VIDEO_CHANNEL       0

Then compile again.
But you might get another error like:
"error: setting palette"

This is from incompatibility of ARToolKit Video Libraru and your USB camera.

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