[Ekiga-list] Logitech Webcam (Not GO) solution

2008-09-27 Thread Brian Fahrlander 


   Back when I was a highly-paid engineer in Chicago, one of these 
little Logitech Webcams got into my stable of parts- musta been 1996-97. 
I wasted THREE HOURS trying to get the thing working under Windows, but 
grinned brightly when I plugged it into Linux and it worked right out of 
the box.


   Fast forward to now: I just spent my 5th hour and final hour going 
over google, trying to re-establish this kind of relationship. 
Everything's newer now, and I understand that, going to 0v511-jpeg, 
spcxxx, and so on. But short of getting out the source code and wasting 
the afternoon (why?) I thought I'd ask if someone in this audience has 
one of them working.  Maybe I'll get a reply before someone empties the 
trashcan.  :)


   I'm running a very 'clean' Ubuntu Hardy, no sourcecode or special 
projects to get in the way. I'm getting the 'usb-returned -28' thing, 
which I'm told is supposed to be the same as no space left on device.


I really don't want to break into source code; I shouldn't have to- 
it's the foundational device on which all these others were built, and 
it once took nothing at all. (We're regressing the way Microsoft's been 
doing, lately).


If you have one of these under Linux, didn't have to hack into the 
source code, let me know, aye?  I'd sure appreciate it.


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Brian Fahrländer Christian, Conservative, and Technomad
Evansville, IN 
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Re: [Ekiga-list] Logitech Webcam (Not GO) solution

2008-09-27 Thread Brian Fahrlander 

Edward Dunagin wrote:


I have a Logitech Quickcam USB running under Hardy and Ekiga 2.0.12
and had no trouble setting it up. It too is very old. Also using v4l..

Hope this helps.ed
  
  Actually there are two versions of their webcam between mine and 
yours; unfortunately yours and ones that followed are the only ones they 
[writers AND webcam designers] chose to move forward with.  That's ok.  
It's already where it needed to go.


   I had an IRMan like this the other day; I spent $35 on it back in 
those days.  I must have put dozens of man-hours into getting it to work 
on various versions of Redhat, then Fedora, then Ubuntu, but it worked 
for like...30 minutes in it's lifetime.  Every once in a while ya need 
to throw things away, ya know?  AND MAN, did it feel good!


  :)

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Evansville, IN 
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