There is a version of Cu-Seeme ( <-- video conference software)for Linux that I have seen people using on various 'refs', I never asked them their cam setup so I can't help there. However I have a Brooktree BT848 (Linux supported) capture card and a Toshiba color cam. I have not tried to setup in Linux...maybe I will for the info...:) HTH Jaguar Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill....what makes you think that it's supported under Linux? > I have a Color Quickcam too and I've never gotten any inkling > (I've been running various Linux distributions since January, > 1999) that it has any support under Linux. > > 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. MDK 7.0 only supports usb keyboards > and mice. > > 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. > > Alan > > > Bill Dearing wrote: > > > > 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 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. The Dogma chased the Stigma, and was hit by the Karma. ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
