Bill....what makes you think that it's supported under Linux?
I have a Color Quickcam too and I've never gotten any inkling
(I've been running various Linux distributions since January,
1999) that it has any support under Linux.
First off, mine's a usb and until Mandrake 7.0 was released
there was no Linux distro I'm aware of that supported any usb
devices out of the box. MDK 7.0 only supports usb keyboards
and mice.
Then again, you may have a parallel Color Quickcam, but even
if you can get it recognized as a device on the parallel port,
there's no no application software to support it, none at
least that I am aware of.
Alan
Bill Dearing wrote:
>
> At 08:35 PM 05/03/2000, you wrote:
> >This has probably been asked before and answered.. but just found the
> >group... I have a and can't seem to get it to work..
> >
> >before I got an error saying something abour the paraport being busy..
> >
> >Since I have clean reinstalled 7.0 and everything else is working fine and
> >now I want to get the QuickCam working.
> >
> >Can anyone give me the steps to get it working
>
> I've never gotten my camera working, and would like to. I'd be really
> interested to know if anyone here has or might have some pointers on how to
> do it.
>
> I have the same problem when I try to load the c-qcam driver as you. I get
> a paraport busy error, and it doesn't work. I'm running Mandrake 7.0 on an
> old PI 166. The system otherwise works just great, and also prints just
> fine through the same port I'm trying to get the camera to work through.
> Killing the lpd daemon hasn't helped, either.
>
> I looked in the archives for this list hoping to find this had already been
> tackled. No dice. I found the same paraport busy error had came up for
> people when they were trying to get their Zip drives to work through the
> parallel port. The solution to that problem came by creating a mount point
> for the Zip drive (which I don't think is necessarily right for a camera).
>
> I also learned that the paraport busy error only means the driver didn't
> load correctly, and not that the port is necessarily busy.
>
> A search on Deja news shows a few people asking this same question about
> getting the cam to work, but no one has ever responded as far as I could
> see. The Quick Cam mini-howto sorta brushed over the whole driver loading
> issues, and I found no other references anywhere else.
>
> I may come up dry here, too, but I guess it's worth a shot. Supposedly this
> camera works under Linux. It'd be great if I could get it to work myself.
