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Peter Bittner
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 Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:56 pm Post subject:
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 03:05:04 -0800, Peter Bittner wrote:
I have a logitech quickcam express which came with my old compaq 7470
working with linux. My understanding is that the whold webcam thing is a
crapshoot. Sometimes the vendors change chipsets in the middle of a model
run. If this is not true, please correct me. I will check your links as
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wmreinemer@tns.net
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Fair warning, the spca5XX driver listed at sourceforge is not as
capable as the one listed at: http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html
I have tried them both.
Walt R.
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Tim McCoy
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A whole bunch of cheapo webcams are supported by the spca50x driver, but
my personal favourite is
Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000
Uses the Philips based PWC module, in the late versions of the 2.6 series
kernel.
Cheers
Tim
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Peter Bittner
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| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:09 pm Post subject:
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Tim,
| Quote: | Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000
Uses the Philips based PWC module, in the late versions of the 2.6 series
kernel.
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But the site http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/ states that Philips
based chips are VERY UNLIKELY to be supported in the future (i.e. in
new kernels).
This could mean that for the next couple of months, maybe for the next
2 or 3 years using your Logitech webcam is no problem, as soon as you
upgrade to a new kernel you're in trouble though, won't it?
SuSE users are probably most likely to be hit by this problem very
early since SuSE (according to my impression) tries to go for the
latest stable kernel in each new release.
Isn't there a webcam where hardware support is not going to suck in
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David Goodenough
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Joined: 21 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:09 am Post subject:
Re: Webcam for Linux - any recommendation?
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Peter Bittner wrote:
| Quote: | Tim,
Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000
Uses the Philips based PWC module, in the late versions of the 2.6 series
kernel.
But the site http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/ states that Philips
based chips are VERY UNLIKELY to be supported in the future (i.e. in
new kernels).
This could mean that for the next couple of months, maybe for the next
2 or 3 years using your Logitech webcam is no problem, as soon as you
upgrade to a new kernel you're in trouble though, won't it?
SuSE users are probably most likely to be hit by this problem very
early since SuSE (according to my impression) tries to go for the
latest stable kernel in each new release.
Isn't there a webcam where hardware support is not going to suck in
the future?
There are two drivers for the Philips cameras, one of which is |
discontinued (the one your article is about I suspect) and the new
one which gets around the issues the old one had and IS likely to
be maintained with new kernels.
David |
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