Hi Rowel, Would you happen to know what were the problems encountered in using firewire? I have a firewire card (ads pyro) and I use it for capturing video from dv cams. Just haven't had the time to configure it in linux (use it on windows).
Anyone from the list who has played around with firewire cards? How about maxtors 80Gb (or even the 40Gb version) external firewire harddisk? Thanks! Jerome ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rowel Atienza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 9:23 AM Subject: Re: [plug] Intel PC camera stuff.. > > 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. > > > > _ > > Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph > > To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _ > Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph > To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
