On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 01:39:31PM -0400, Joshua Pollak wrote: > Ever hear of embrace and extend? Linux doesn't yet carry enough consumer > weight to force hardware developers to support it, so Linux needs to > come to the hardware, rather than the other way around. The vast > majority of the webcams out there use this driver, Linux must support it. > > When I go shopping for Linux hardware, I look for what supports Linux > and its ideals best, and sometimes there are plenty of good choices, for > example, printers and scanners. But when it comes to webcams, there's > pretty much only choice, or at least, one choice of driver. And now, its > gone.
Not true. The ov511 driver works pretty well, with my Orange Micro iBot2 (USB2.0) webcam, I can do 30fps at 640x480 truecolor uncompressed ... > Oh yeah, and I'm supposed to rush out and buy new hardware every time a > Linux developer decides he now doesn't like a previously supported > product? What happened to choice and freedom? Well, the freedom is with the author of the software this time. Btw, you don't have to delete the driver from your harddrive. It'll keep working. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
