[olug] RH8 & Logitech camera

[Craig Wolf]

Thanx, I will look into that!  It uses the SUNPLUS SPCA500A chip in it. 
I am not adept enough at programming to write my own driver, but maybe I
will get lucky sometime in that someone else can...I can wish.  I think
that this puts the coffin in my purchases of Logitech products though. 
I stopped buying their mice years ago when I figured out that Kensington
has a 5 year warranty on their mice vs. 90 days or 1 year for Logitech. 
I may have to keep around Winders for just my camera work until a driver
is found.  Thanx again!

Craig Wolf
Linux Web Server Support
Backup Supervisor
Desktop/Network Specialist
402-894-6283


>>> jjmollner at hotmail.com 3/3/2003 >>>
Actually, I was able to get my logitech quickcam to work in xawtv with
the
pwcx driver: http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/ 

It might work with your cam too even though yours isn't listed (I
didn't
take the time to look to see what chip yours uses).  Sadly, you still
won't
get any digital cam functionality out of your cam with pwcx.  But he
does
have a nice API specification to help you make your own driver based on
his
(if that sort of thing interests you).

As far as using the cam on your RH8 machine with your parent's Win
machine,
I don't understand why you can't just set it up like a webcam.  (xawtv
has a
webcam package that works with the pwcx driver or you could try
camstream:
http://www.smcc.demon.nl/camstream/)

Hope this helps,
Jason


----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Penne" <epenne at yahoo.com>
To: <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: [olug] RH8 & Logitech camera


> From my research on WebCams, Logitech was not very linux friendly.
> They used non standard chips and all sorts of windows centric
drivers.
> They also weren't readily giving out info on the webcams.  I thought
> some of the parallel port cams would work but none of the USB ones.
>
> http://www.linux-usb.org has the dirt on what usb devices are
> supported.
>
> Eric
>
>
> --- Adam Haeder <adamh at omaha.org> wrote:
> > http://www.gnomemeeting.org/ is a NetMeeting-interoperable program
> > for
> > linux.
> >
> > I assume it's USB? What exactly do the logs say when you hot-plug
it
> > in?
> >
> > --
> > Adam Haeder
> > Technical Coordinator, AIM Institute
> > adamh at omaha.org 
> > (402) 345-5025 x115
> > PGP Public key: http://www.omaha.org/~adamh/pgp.html 
> >
> > On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Craig Wolf wrote:
> >
> > > Here is the deal:  I transitioned my daughter's computer to
Linux.
> > > (Tired of the every 6 month crash/rebuild.)  I have a Logitech
> > > ClickSmart Webcam/Digital Camera for talking/seeing the
> > grandparents.
> > > No more function.  KDE Kamera has no clue what it is, the log
shows
> > that
> > > the system sees it but has no clue what to do with/what it is. 
Can
> > > someone give me pointers on a few things?:
> > > 1.  How do I get the system to see it.
> > > 2.  What should I use to pull pictures off the device (smartcard
> > based,
> > > I think)?
> > > 3.  Is there an application that will allow me to use the webcam
on
> > my
> > > machine(RH8) with my parents machine (WinME)?
> > >
> > > Thanx to any and all for your help in getting ideas and/or
pointers
> > on
> > > where to go next!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Craig Wolf sends...
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