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usb webcams are usually cheap nasty pieces of commodity hardware but if you havent seen your wife/gf/partner/child in like 6 months theyre heaps better than nothing
if you want serious webconferencing you go for something firewire based anyway. i would say that isight would be just a dv device - which are nicely supported in linux. then youll need some serious bandwidth. but if your just goofing around on your home lan...
Dean
Simon Males wrote: | | Searching for a webcam that will work with the 2.6 kernel. Actually have | a Logitech Quickcam express, although the author says 2.6 support should | work, its not widly tested. Also crave a little more resolution. (Post | back if you have a cam running on 2.6). | | The Apple iSight looks nice, expensive like all Apple hardware. I see a | few forum posts of people saying that can get it working on linux, no | mention of which driver. Further its firewire only, I have yet to use my | firewire ports. | http://apple.com.au/isight/ | | I am also eyeing the Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000, the Philips [chipset] | USB webcams seems to be well supported in 2.6. | | Here i actually found a comparison of of the Pro 4000 and iSight (only | for picture quality, iSight wins hands down). | http://saturn5.com/~jwb/isight/ | | Its weird seeing Tux as an emblem for "OS support" along side Windows | and Mac: | http://www.sightspeed.com/page.php?page=cameras | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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