at a total loss

Question

I am a total beginner. I installed it but I don't know where. Where do I go from here? The guide does not help any. How do I get the commands to work? How do I change how often it takes a picture? I keep getting to the same place. I don't know how to get anywhere else. what do I type like 'sudo' and all of that. Where and how do I use things like 'framerate'? Please help!

arikun@willow-linux:~$ whereis motion 
motion: /usr/bin/motion /etc/motion /usr/share/man/man1/motion.1.gz
arikun@willow-linux:~$ sudo motion -n -c ~/motion/motion.conf
[sudo] password for arikun: 
[0] Configfile /home/arikun/motion/motion.conf not found - trying defaults.: No such file or directory
[0] Processing thread 0 - config file /etc/motion/motion.conf
[0] Motion 3.2.11 Started
[0] ffmpeg LIBAVCODEC_BUILD 3410688 LIBAVFORMAT_BUILD 3414017
[0] Thread 1 is from /etc/motion/motion.conf
[1] Thread 1 started
[1] cap.driver: "zc3xx"
[1] cap.card: "USB Camera (046d:08d9)"
[1] cap.bus_info: "0000:00:0b.0"
[1] cap.capabilities=0x05000001
[1] - VIDEO_CAPTURE
[1] - READWRITE
[1] - STREAMING
[1] Supported palettes:
[1] 0: JPEG (JPEG)
[1] index_format 3 Test palette JPEG (320x240)
[1] Using palette JPEG (320x240) bytesperlines 320 sizeimage 29390 colorspace 00000007
[1] found control 0x00980900, "Brightness", range 0,255 
[1]    "Brightness", default 128, current 128
[1] found control 0x00980901, "Contrast", range 0,256 
[1]    "Contrast", default 128, current 128
[1] found control 0x00980910, "Gamma", range 1,6 
[1]    "Gamma", default 4, current 4
[1] found control 0x00980912, "Auto Gain", range 0,1 
[1]    "Auto Gain", default 1, current 1
[1] mmap information:
[1] frames=4
[1] 0 length=32768
[1] 1 length=32768
[1] 2 length=32768
[0] motion-httpd/3.2.11 running, accepting connections
[0] motion-httpd: waiting for data on port TCP 8080
[1] 3 length=32768
[1] Using V4L2
[1] Resizing pre_capture buffer to 1 items
[1] Started stream webcam server in port 8081

Environment

Motion version:	3.2.11
ffmpeg version:
Libraries:	ffmpeg, mysql, postgresql, none?
Server OS:

-- SecuonoDem - 29 Jun 2009

Answer

- Firstly, read here :

http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/MotionGuideOneLargeDocument#How_do_I_install_Motion

http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/TuningMotion

http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/SupportQuestion2009x06x19x005116

-- FlorinAnton - 29 Jun 2009