[plug] Webcam

[Scott]

Do you know if you can still buy 'em brand new?

If so where?

Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kai" <vk6ksj at siwa.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 7:57 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] Webcam


> 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
>
>