On Wednesday 08 November 2006 13:47, James Wilkinson wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > Tim, I know my Philips webcam was cheap, but it used to work with > > GnomeMeeting. The picture was clear and the colour not too far out. > > IIRC with FC4 I had no problem with the picture either, though I never > > got the sound part right. With FC6 it is unusable. I don't know whether > > it's the webcam or pwc. > > That would be the pwc which got all the fuss back in 2004, right? It > depended on a closed-source user-space program to get decent output, > which used a special hook in the pwc driver. The hook was taken out by > Greg KH, and the driver maintainer got upset and demanded that the module > was withdrawn. A new maintainer took over the code, added some support > for the higher-resolution modes, That much I do remember. Under Mandrake/Mandriva I had used that older driver. > and then Alan Cox had much of it removed > because there was reason to believe that the code wasn't legally "clean". I must have missed that bit. However, as I said, I did get a picture under FC4. I just never pursued it because I couldn't get the sound working, and there wasn't sufficient reason to devote time to it. > > http://lwn.net/Articles/99615/ > http://lwn.net/Articles/102246/ > http://lwn.net/Articles/137824/ > > I'm not sure of the end of that tale. Meanwhile, FreshRPMs, at least, > offers a driver for FC6 that promises high-resolution support... > > http://lwn.net/Articles/206077/ > Odd. I've looked over the whole list at http://zod.freshrpms.net/ and can't see anything obvious. Which package are you thinking of? Anne
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