Heya Orly,
USB type of cameras are really pain in the @$$. Some of our people
here have tried firewire for digital cameras instead. Though they were
able to do it, they still keep on coming back to plain old pci type
framegrabber cum camera setup. pxc/bttv pci/isa type framegrabbers are
much easier to setup (especially with the new kernels' v4l). You should
have opted to buy a cheap Flyvideo framegrabber for around P2K and a cheap
camera with rca or svideo output and your life would be much easier.
-rowel
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Orlando Andico wrote:
>
> Well. I just discovered two nasty things:
>
> 1) "rivafb" framebuffer does not play nice with NVIDIA closed-source X
> drivers; quitting X causes the machine to lock hard if you're using
> "rivafb" =(
>
> 2) Andrea's wonderful VM changes in 2.4.10 in conjunction with major
> bugginess in the Intel USB camera driver causes the machine to lock hard;
> I "regressed" to 2.4.10-ac1 and the camera driver "seems" to work --
> "seems" because it loads, it spits out debug data when I try to snapshot..
> but it doesn't take pictures at all. =(
>
> I'm tempted to just use my Epson digital camera for my little webcam toy
> project.. it's very slow to capture (1.0-megapixel, and the transfer
> medium is SERIAL PORT), it's big and heavy, the resolution is too high for
> a mere webcam, but at least it works. =(
>
>
> --
> Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Mosaic Communications, Inc.
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