Albert Seminatore wrote:
> Dan:
> >>>>>>
> I'm sure my help isn't wanted, anyway some hints, search Linux Google, 
> e.g.
> >>>>>>
>    It is ALWAYS welcome.  We sit out here in Alien country (Roswell, 
> NM) were there are NO technical folks.  So it is always nice to talk 
> to someone who understands Gb, MB and the like.  I'll check out the 
> sites and if I don't see anything I'll e-mail Kevin.
>    Thanks a bunch....................    Al
>

Pardon, to write Kevin was a joke, because of some trouble I had on this 
list.

The side http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialVideo.html seems 
not to be a help for your problem, but maybe you'll find something by 
the links on that side.

I tried to search for your camera in combination with Linux, but search 
engines gave useless results. The special Linux-Google might ease a 
search in a case were an often used device like your camera should be 
found in combination with a less used OS like Linux.

If you use USB without a special driver for your camera, do you get any 
messages?

There's an USB video standard since 2003. Have you tried the Linux UVC 
driver? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_video_device_class#Linux

Your camera isn't in the list at http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/, but I 
don't know if it's equivalent to another camera.

Hm, "Linux 2.6.26 and newer includes the Linux UVC driver natively." 
Your kernel should be ex 2.6.26 ;), I guess that's why Daniel advised 
you to check USB. Unfortunately it seems to be, that your camera isn't 
supported yet.

You should try the latest driver version from SVN, take a look at 
http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=Linux+UVC, but first ...

"How do I find out whether my camera is a UVC device or not?

   1. First find out the vendor ID (VID) and product ID (PID) of your 
webcam.
   2. Use the lsusb tool and look for video class interfaces like this: 
(In this example, the VID is 046d and the PID is 08cb.)

lsusb -d 046d:08cb -v | grep "14 Video"

If your device is a UVC device, you should see a number of lines that 
look like this:

bFunctionClass         14 Video
bInterfaceClass        14 Video
bInterfaceClass        14 Video
bInterfaceClass        14 Video

In this case the Linux UVC driver should recognize your camera when you 
plug it in.

If there are no such lines, your device is not a UVC device." 
(http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/faq/)

To get in contact with the coders might be the best way to find out 
what's possible and what not ;). You need to accept the invalid 
certificate to browse to 
https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel.

I don't have any experiences with wine and cameras and also not with 
wine and USB, but if Linux should fail you might could test wine.

Hth,
Ralf
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