On Friday 20 June 2008 11:02:28 James wrote: > Matthew R. Lee <gentoo <at> matthewlee.org> writes: > > Dear All, > > I've just taken delivery of a shiny new microscope with a digital imaging > > system. Essentially a fancy usb webcam. As usual out of the box there is > > no Linux support. The model is a Q Imaging Go-3. Their website doesn't > > mention linux support except in the context of the firewire models. > > http://www.qimaging.com/products/cameras/documentation/ > > Says: > "The Go Series use superior CMOS sensors which take advantage of USB 2.0 > plug-n-play interfaces under Windows supported operating systems. The > MicroPublisher cameras use CCD technology combined with the sustained data > performance of FireWire to offer superior color imaging and performance for > Windows, Mac and Linux based operating systems. Both the Go and > MicroPublisher series cameras come with QCapture Suite and QCapture Pro > software designed for high speed performance preview and capture functions. > A Software Development Kit is available for easy interfacing with custom > software. QImaging cameras are compatible with a large selection of life > science and industrial software for microscope, machine vision and video > streaming applications. " > > > Oh by the way, in my previous post I mentioned "classes of usb > drivers". Take a look here: > > http://www.usb.org/developers/defined_class > > A generic class driver under linux just might work for your device, > since it is bascially a "web cam". Vendors most often try to get > their products to use the generic class drivers, so they work > out of the box with the various operating systems. > > Surely there is a way to make one of their microscopes work with linux? > > > I'd be interested in this, if they do not cost too much..... > > > James
Thanks for the info, I haven't got time to do anything about this until the weekend. Hopefully it will just work. As for the cost, it is excessivly spendy. The cost was around 2.3 million chilean pesos, that's about £2300 or $4600 US. Yeah! seemed exhorbitant to me, but I'm not paying for it. Saludos Matt -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
