On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 23:23 +1100, Elliott-Brennan wrote: > Hi, > A relative has just moved O/S and I'm looking at buying a webcam (I have > Mandrake 10 Official with the latest kernel). I gather that the Logitech > Webcam should work. I'm wondering if anyone is running one (or another > one) and what their experience has been (good, bad, indifferent).
I bought a logitech one a while ago and wasn't able to make it work. The current generation of Logitech cams have got a different chipset to the ones that were quite common a few years ago. The new ones are simply too much work to be worth it (but if you really want to do it, someone *has* written a mostly working driver for them. It's just a pain to get going). Sorry I don't have any more helpful info there. Maybe the guys at elx have something you can use. Also, if you're intending to do video-conferencing -- I bought a Logitech USB headset to do the same thing. The headset itself worked quite well with linux and was almost no effort to get it up and running. For some reason though, it had real issues when I tried to use it with Skype. Anyway, if you've got a working sound-card I'd recommend trying out a non-USB headset. See if that works for you first. HTH, James.
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