Hey Shawn I am using Logitech Quickcam Pro 5000 works fine even with Skype 2.0 beta (FYI Skype 2.0 for Linux was released earlier this week) No major cracking needed on UBUNTU 7.04
Also using Linksys WVC54GC, this one has a built in webserver. Some minor hacking needed (To setup the cam you can use the built in web-server, to view video you need MS & IE or VLC on Linux) Found this great article http://www.infohit.net/blog/post/using-linksys-wvc54gc-webcam-with-linux.html (Part 2 talks about motion and restreaming) As for the old webcam, I suggest doing a lsusb on the command line ... Bus 001 Device 008: ID 046d:08ce Logitech, Inc. ... Put the ID 046d:08ce and the word 'linux' in Google and you might find some good instructions to get it working. Hope this helps Peter Shawn wrote: > Anyone using a decent webcam with K/ubuntu? If so, can you share the > make/model of the webcam and any hoops you had to jump through? > > I dug out my OLD Logitech webcam (circa 2002) and plugged it in. dmesg > tells me it's detected, but when I try to use it I'm getting odd kernel > problems (complete freeze/lockup, recursive failures (??), etc.). Looks > like support for this cam is spotty at best. > > I'm also looking for any tips on software to use with the webcam. > > My immediate purpose is to simply have the cam grab a snapshot to file > every second or so, and do some processing on the resulting image. I > want to see if a) I can capture an image with reasonable resolution > using little memory, and b) see if I can identify obstacles in the > picture. I can do the latter without the web cam, but it's kinda > pointless if I can't get the webcam going. > > Thanks for any tips. > > Shawn > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
