On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Bryan Murdock wrote: > > Then I give you a quest: Find me a new (non-ebay, retail) webcam (I > > don't care if it's USB or whatever, just something I can easily plug in) > > that works in Linux without any help from me _now_. > > All I would do is search google for linux webcam (I see some pages that > seem to promise that you can get a webcam to work). Obviously you have > actually tried this out so I'll have to trust you. As far as printers > and scanners yes, you have to pay more than $20 to get one that isn't a > dumb box that makes the (windows only) driver do all the real work :) > Linux will have to become pretty prevalant before that situation > changes.
I think the point was to have a webcam that work without any help from the user. There are lots of webcams that work under linux, but as far as I can tell, every single one of them requires _at the very least_ modprobing a kernel module. That's not going to "just work". Sorry :-) ~ ross -- This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
