On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > | From: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > | i'd like to crawl out of my sick bed today and wander down to future > | shop and pick up a webcam to putz around with. obviously, i want one > | that's well-supported on fedora, but i'd also like one that's > | compatible with installing openwrt on my asus wl500-gp router > > I know little about webcams. Over the years, I've tried a couple and > the results were not very good on Linux. i did, in fact, pick up a logitech quickcam communicate STX on sale at the local future shop -- regular $80 on for $30. > Two things to note about this camera: > - lots of pixels > - UVC now here's where i'm still unclear -- i read about the "UVC" compatibility but, for the webcam i picked up, all i needed was to download the "gspca" source: http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html then build and load the module, and the "cheese" webcam utility worked just fine. > When I googled for Linux support for this camera, I came across this > helpful article. > http://www.linuxlove.org/2007/11/12/linux-webcam-microsoft-lifecam-nx-6000-on-ubuntu-and-fedora/ > It also lists other UVC webcams. > > I'm inferring that UVC is the way to go. I presume that it isn't > proprietary like so many other camera protocols. It is slightly > worrisome that the driver isn't yet a standard part of distros. and i'm still unclear on this "UVC" thing, but i'm willing to do some reading on gspca versus UVC and so on. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA ========================================================================
