I've played with a webcam a little, but not the same as yours. IIRC, there's driver settings for some webcams that you can set at driver load, to adjust the brightness/contrast/etc. I'm guessing that will disable the "auto-brightness" but it's worth a shot. On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Tracy McKibben wrote: > Anyone here with knowledge of running a webcam under Linux? Specifically, > I'm using a DLink DSB-C100 under Mandrake 8.2, using a package called > Motion to detect movement on the webcam. All is well, with the exception > of picture quality, the pictures are VERY dark. The same camera gives > very good pictures under Windows, and the clarity is the same under Linux, > just very dark. The camera has auto-brightness adjustment, and I've also > tried turning on the auto-brightness setting in Motion, but no dice. -- LINUX, because rebooting is for adding hardware! www.linuxsnob.com <-- a little linux humor, and a very little support.