Am Mo, den 17.01.2005 schrieb Gene Heskett um 16:33: > >I have got myself a little confused about web cams. I was looking at > > the Philips chips, and then found that the support for PWC / PWCX > > has been dropped, I've read the site, a rather sad tale (not one I > > want to debate), but now I am wondering what Web cam to buy. > > > >Anyone got any good experiences with web cams that work on FC2 and > > FC3? Would be greatful for coments on any make. > The Philips stuff is back AFAIK. A re-write by a new maintainer I > think. But you may have to get a kernel.org kernel for it. > Cheers, Gene It is in the Fedora Core kernel - and I am really glad that this is the case. I have 2 of the Philips cams supported by the pwc module (now only one module and not the couple of pwc + pwcx) and have ever been lucky with quality for the price of these camera models. Here my syslog messages: Jan 17 18:23:05 serendipity kernel: pwc Philips webcam module version 9.0.2-unofficial loaded. Jan 17 18:23:05 serendipity kernel: pwc Supports Philips PCA645/646, PCVC675/680/690, PCVC720[40]/730/740/750 & PCVC830/840. Jan 17 18:23:05 serendipity kernel: pwc Also supports the Askey VC010, various Logitech Quickcams, Samsung MPC-C10 and MPC-C30, Jan 17 18:23:05 serendipity kernel: pwc the Creative WebCam 5 & Pro Ex, SOTEC Afina Eye and Visionite VCS-UC300 and VCS-UM100. Jan 17 18:23:05 serendipity kernel: pwc Default framerate set to 15. Jan 17 18:23:05 serendipity kernel: pwc Default image size set to vga [640x480]. Jan 17 18:23:05 serendipity kernel: pwc Number of image buffers set to 10. Jan 17 18:23:05 serendipity kernel: pwc Number of frame buffers set to 5. Jan 17 18:23:05 serendipity kernel: pwc Preferred compression set to 2. Jan 17 18:23:05 serendipity kernel: pwc Enabling power save on open/close. Jan 17 18:23:05 serendipity kernel: pwc Philips PCVC740K (ToUCam Pro)/PCVC840 (ToUCam II) USB webcam detected. Jan 17 18:23:05 serendipity kernel: pwc Registered as /dev/video1. Running kernel from signature. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | new address - new key: 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on Athlon kernel 2.6.10-1.9_FC2smp Serendipity 18:28:29 up 3 days, 1:50, load average: 1.53, 1.26, 1.12
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