From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GK1bQ-000463-3r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 03 Sep 2006 23:42:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k83NfHxc021011; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 23:41:17 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k83NaZS1015239 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 23:36:35 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id s2so1685779uge for ; Sun, 03 Sep 2006 16:36:35 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=obTW2R6v//mMvt5Yl5sJLT++5t9P/8fsuql1VqoSWPAEC9qpAWVU1C4+yw9SaIkklbBUtvjH/ztKxdDy7qzuxImqhXPAhklKZADQvIEgKU8YiA43Ssron6g4dTwIAYu0SOqHkwU5yZxCpY7unbGho4yO4tOyoe1RkJoTIq1TyJs= Received: by 10.67.101.10 with SMTP id d10mr2545782ugm; Sun, 03 Sep 2006 16:36:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.241.13 with HTTP; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 16:36:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <11b141710609031636qd3c3436na782e4e2ad92b9df@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 00:36:34 +0100 From: "Paulo J. Matos" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Buying Webcameras In-Reply-To: <1157192001.6179.8.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <11b141710609011729y1667f4aemea5fcd191c6e3f11@mail.gmail.com> <1157192001.6179.8.camel@orpheus> X-Archives-Salt: 04ac0cff-b96f-434c-9926-9bce22473dba X-Archives-Hash: be7ed00a9c25204af5089fb10c0af5f4 Thanks a lot for the tips, I'll check those references! :-) 2006/9/2, Iain Buchanan : > On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 01:29 +0100, Paulo J. Matos wrote: > > HI all, > > > > I'm searching for a laptop webcam and a desktop webcam which should > > work under Gentoo and preferably work well under Ekiga with very good > > quality. > > > [snip] > > > > I'd be quite happy to hear all the possible experience you could share > > on this. Cameras, models, quality, applications, etc. > > I just got a Logitech Fusion working under gentoo with the linux-uvc > ebuild (had to add a patch[1]), and luvcview. It gave me a /dev/video0 > device, but tvtime couldn't view it properly (stuttered a lot). I > didn't get the audio working, but I only spent a few minutes on it. The > "face tracking" and pan and tilt the box claims are all done in software > (that works on windows) so you won't have those features. The quality > was a little flickery under the flouro's at work, but better outside. > It also automatically adjusted the aperture (brightness). > > These websites[2],[3] lists some other logitech models and their > compatibility. See if you can get a hold of one and run `lsusb` to find > out it's ID, then you will have a better idea if it works or not. > > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143201 > [2] http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/ > [3] http://qce-ga.sourceforge.net/ > > HTH, > -- > Iain Buchanan > > Martin was probably ripping them off. That's some family, isn't it? > Incest, prostitution, fanaticism, software. > -- Charles Willeford, "Miami Blues" > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at sat inesc-id pt Web: http://sat.inesc-id.pt/~pocm Computer and Software Engineering INESC-ID - SAT Group -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list