[gentoo-user] Re: digital camera - Longshot!
Matthew R. Lee gentoo at matthewlee.org writes: Dear All, I've just taken delivery of a shiny new microscope with a digital imaging system. Essentially a fancy usb webcam. As usual out of the box there is no Linux support. The model is a Q Imaging Go-3. Their website doesn't mention linux support except in the context of the firewire models. http://www.qimaging.com/products/cameras/documentation/ Says: The Go Series use superior CMOS sensors which take advantage of USB 2.0 plug-n-play interfaces under Windows supported operating systems. The MicroPublisher cameras use CCD technology combined with the sustained data performance of FireWire to offer superior color imaging and performance for Windows, Mac and Linux based operating systems. Both the Go and MicroPublisher series cameras come with QCapture Suite and QCapture Pro software designed for high speed performance preview and capture functions. A Software Development Kit is available for easy interfacing with custom software. QImaging cameras are compatible with a large selection of life science and industrial software for microscope, machine vision and video streaming applications. Oh by the way, in my previous post I mentioned classes of usb drivers. Take a look here: http://www.usb.org/developers/defined_class A generic class driver under linux just might work for your device, since it is bascially a web cam. Vendors most often try to get their products to use the generic class drivers, so they work out of the box with the various operating systems. Surely there is a way to make one of their microscopes work with linux? I'd be interested in this, if they do not cost too much. James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: digital camera - Longshot!
On Friday 20 June 2008 11:02:28 James wrote: Matthew R. Lee gentoo at matthewlee.org writes: Dear All, I've just taken delivery of a shiny new microscope with a digital imaging system. Essentially a fancy usb webcam. As usual out of the box there is no Linux support. The model is a Q Imaging Go-3. Their website doesn't mention linux support except in the context of the firewire models. http://www.qimaging.com/products/cameras/documentation/ Says: The Go Series use superior CMOS sensors which take advantage of USB 2.0 plug-n-play interfaces under Windows supported operating systems. The MicroPublisher cameras use CCD technology combined with the sustained data performance of FireWire to offer superior color imaging and performance for Windows, Mac and Linux based operating systems. Both the Go and MicroPublisher series cameras come with QCapture Suite and QCapture Pro software designed for high speed performance preview and capture functions. A Software Development Kit is available for easy interfacing with custom software. QImaging cameras are compatible with a large selection of life science and industrial software for microscope, machine vision and video streaming applications. Oh by the way, in my previous post I mentioned classes of usb drivers. Take a look here: http://www.usb.org/developers/defined_class A generic class driver under linux just might work for your device, since it is bascially a web cam. Vendors most often try to get their products to use the generic class drivers, so they work out of the box with the various operating systems. Surely there is a way to make one of their microscopes work with linux? I'd be interested in this, if they do not cost too much. James Thanks for the info, I haven't got time to do anything about this until the weekend. Hopefully it will just work. As for the cost, it is excessivly spendy. The cost was around 2.3 million chilean pesos, that's about £2300 or $4600 US. Yeah! seemed exhorbitant to me, but I'm not paying for it. Saludos Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: digital camera - Longshot!
Matthew R. Lee gentoo at matthewlee.org writes: I've just taken delivery of a shiny new microscope with a digital imaging system. Essentially a fancy usb webcam. I've looked through various webcam, gentoo-wiki, and V4L sites to see if those IDs mean anything, but no luck sofar. I even tried googling them. Truth is I'm not sure what they actually refer to. You *might* find useful information or help here: http://www.usb.org/developers/ I think wireshark can be used to sniff the usb(buss). if you use XP/vista, then look here: http://www.pcausa.com/Utilities/UsbSnoop/default.htm You might also find another useful software package in /usr/portage/net-analyzer to help you diagnose and figure out what to do with usb. In all operating systems there are generic device drivers that work for different classes of usb devices. So, your device, just might work with a general purpose (class) usb driver, but it's no guarantee. If it does, you might find a way to use either a generic usb driver or a vendor specific usb driver under windows. hth, James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
