I finally got xawtv to work, using knoppix 3.6. Now, knoppix works with my old crappy usb camera to some extent.

Problem is, they did not install the actual webcam application that works with xawtv. I tried downloading the .deb, using alien to get it in a .tgz and running it, but there are dep problems. I can't just use apt-get install webcam like the linux webcam faq suggests.

Any ideas? Do I need to download the xawtv package and make the whole thing? I really just need the simple webcam app.

Thanks!