Roger Oberholtzer wrote: >On Mon, 27 May 2002 20:22:30 +0000 >Bob Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>That friend of mine with the laptop battery troubles has a nice, fast >>SuSE 8.0 with XFS. I haven't tested battery yet, but the thing isn't >>swapping to the HD all the time, even though I went overboard and gave >>him 600 mb of swap. Now, he wants to replace his now dead digital video >>camera with something in the $300-$500 range, that works in Linux, and >>is firewire, and is of good quality. I'm giving up Googling. I spent >>about two hours on there and got plenty of links about webcams, but he >>doesn't want a webcam. Any suggestions on what to get? >> >> > >Digital camera or digital video? They are not the same. The latter has tape >and the former does not. And, just to be nice, they have a different >protocol... And stick to OHCI cards as driver support is far more active >than for pcilynx-type cards. This is especially true when using >isosynchronous mode and DMA. > >We use UniBrain firewire cards and Sony DFW-SX900 digital cameras with >Linux. Be warned that that they do not work well with Caldera 3.1 as >the kernel used had a bad firewire release. The kernel in 3.1.1, however, >works as expected. (There is a patch for this available from the 1394 >site listed later in this message, but getting the Caldera 3.1 kernel to >recompile was not obvious as there were mistakes in the Caldera rpms that >required far too much fiddling to sort out. There is a doc from Caldera >about how to do this, it you need it.) > > He's using SuSE 8.0, so I don't think that should be a problem. I'm pretty sure SuSE detected the firewire port during installation. I'll have to take a look next time I'm near his laptop.
>If your question is about digital video tape cameras, then I can say >nothing. Except that the advice about the firewire card and kernel >release are also relevant. > > All that matters is that the camera is of decent enough quality to videotape piano concerts, so I don't care whether it is tape or no tape. >Have you checked out http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/hcl.php for >information on supported hardware? > No, I hadn't. Thanks for the link. But it seems most of the stuff on that list is way out of his price range. I'm finding plenty of cameras in his range; too bad they aren't on the list. Thanks, Bob Raymond > > > > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
