At 08:35 PM 05/03/2000, you wrote:
>This has probably been asked before and answered.. but just found the
>group... I have a Color Quickcam and can't seem to get it to work..
>
>before I got an error saying something abour the paraport being busy..
>
>Since I have clean reinstalled 7.0 and everything else is working fine and
>now I want to get the QuickCam working.
>
>Can anyone give me the steps to get it working
I've never gotten my camera working, and would like to. I'd be really
interested to know if anyone here has or might have some pointers on how to
do it.
I have the same problem when I try to load the c-qcam driver as you. I get
a paraport busy error, and it doesn't work. I'm running Mandrake 7.0 on an
old PI 166. The system otherwise works just great, and also prints just
fine through the same port I'm trying to get the camera to work through.
Killing the lpd daemon hasn't helped, either.
I looked in the archives for this list hoping to find this had already been
tackled. No dice. I found the same paraport busy error had came up for
people when they were trying to get their Zip drives to work through the
parallel port. The solution to that problem came by creating a mount point
for the Zip drive (which I don't think is necessarily right for a camera).
I also learned that the paraport busy error only means the driver didn't
load correctly, and not that the port is necessarily busy.
A search on Deja news shows a few people asking this same question about
getting the cam to work, but no one has ever responded as far as I could
see. The Quick Cam mini-howto sorta brushed over the whole driver loading
issues, and I found no other references anywhere else.
I may come up dry here, too, but I guess it's worth a shot. Supposedly this
camera works under Linux. It'd be great if I could get it to work myself.
