[plug] Webcam

[Kai]

G'day Scott,

I have an old parrallel port style Logitech Colour QuickCam, got it working
using GQCam from http://cse.unl.edu/~cluening/gqcam/ , the current
development version GQCam 0.9 -
http://cse.unl.edu/~cluening/gqcam/download/gqcam-0.9.tar.gz - works fine on
my Red Hat 6.2 machine ! I didn't have to download any other software, the
included modules that come with Red Hat work fine...Debian maybe different?
dunno, never used it. :)

As usual, untar and read the INSTALL file and it only takes a few seconds
using modprobe and lsmod to check you've got the right modules set for the
camera and it works great ! You prolly know a helluva lot more about Linux
than I do so it'll prolly be quicker and easier for you...
Took me 5 minutes to download the 32kb tar file, unzip it, read the INSTALL
file and have it working ! Now that I got it working I'm trying to get the
frame grabber working right so the web part of the cam can be used so I can
have the frames send to a file on my webserver so, dur, people can view it
over the net....can't be too hard though !

I hope that's useful !

/Kai

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott" <scott at bizzpro.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 3:19 PM
Subject: [plug] Webcam


> I am looking for an appropriate webcam that can run under debian linux.
> Currently i am using a USB logitech quickcam running in windows but
> unfortunately it is not supported in linux.
> I would like to get rid of windows all together but the only reason i
don't
> is the webcam.
>
> Any recommendations from people who have successfully got a webcam to run?
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> Scott
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