Bill....wow, thanks! I was totally unaware of any support for
it because mine's a usb and there's been no Linux USB support
(unless you want to mess around with a development kernal)
till very recently and nothing yet for anything other than
mice and keyboards. So I never really looked.
Alan
Bill Dearing wrote:
>
> At 09:01 PM 5/5/00, you wrote:
> >Bill....what makes you think that it's supported under Linux?
>
> Because this guy says so:
> http://www.crynwr.com/qcpc/
>
> He could always be lying (and my success so far might even suggest that he
> is), but I continue to have hope. :)
>
> First off, mine's a usb and until Mandrake 7.0 was released
> >there was no Linux distro I'm aware of that supported any usb
> >devices out of the box.
>
> The motherboard my old P1 166 sits on doesn't even any USB port. My camera
> is a parallel port version (hence the paraport busy error). It's actually
> the first rev of the color quickcam.
>
> For USB help getting your quick cam working I wouldn't even pretend to
> advise you on how to do that.
>
> Then again, you may have a parallel Color Quickcam, but even
> >if you can get it recognized as a device on the parallel port,
> >there's no no application software to support it, none at
> >least that I am aware of.
>
> Actually, I have cqcam already installed. That's precisely what it's used
> for. There are others as well, but I haven't explored them because I can't
> get the damn driver to load.
>
> Anybody have any advise?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
