On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 14:36, Ross Werner wrote: > 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 :-)
Who cares about silly low-res webcams anyway? :) Bryan ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
