On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 22:50 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > ... > >4) A USB cam uses all USB bandwidth from a USB controller (dont > >understand why). You cannot connect two USB cams to a single USB > >controller. MUST have a card with two controllers if want to have two > >cams. > > This doesn't have to be true, at least for most cameras, and depends on the > driver. When I worked for Steve Sisak (Codewell, now IOXperts) writing USB > camera drivers on MacOS, we would usually provide a way to set the > bandwidth, and, in any case, would try to get by on what was available by > using different alternate settings. I don't know about drivers for Linux. Yes. You are right. Now I remember the problem was when using that common Genius webcams. Someone told me to install 3 usb additional cards if I want 4 cams (one driver comes integrated with the motherboard). Luck! > > ____________________________________________________________________ > TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> > -- Rodolfo Alcazar rodolfo.alcazar@xxxxxxxxxxxx Netzmanager Padep, GTZ 591-70656800, -22417628 LA PAZ, BOLIVIA -- Yoda: When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not. Hmm?
