[plug] Webcam

[Kai]

Ummm, dunno sorry.
Got mine sent to me from a mate of mine overseas..... :)

Maybe have a look at some second hand places on the net? or maybe someone on
PLUG has one they can give you?

/Kai
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott" <scott at bizzpro.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Webcam


> 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
> >
> >
>
>
>