Anand Shankar wrote: > On Jan 10, 2008 10:08 AM, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Bought a webcam yesterday, thought I'd share the experience... >> Unfortunately the webcams >> that seem to work well with Linux (at least according to Google) seem >> to be pretty high priced -- Rs 4000+. > > Thats right - This has been putting me off for buying a webcam for > years!! But these devices are supporting USB Video Class, [UVC] which > supposedly do not bring up issues like this >
I burnt my hand recently after buying a $90 Logitech quickcam pro or something. As my bad luck turned out, this needed the exact driver which was pulled out from the Linux kernel in a big public spat [1]. My bad, I should have checked before that flash of impulsive buying. I had to donate the cam to my brother who happily runs it on his XP (blech). [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/99615/ Some years back, I did get a logitech quickcam express working fine. http://blog.sandipb.net/2004/11/28/video-conferencing-on-linux/ - Sandip _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
