What Webcam should I buy????? (help please)

azote · Guru Joined: 17 Sep 2002 Posts: 415

please what webcam should I buy to make it work under gentoo

I mean witch one is the easiest one to make it work

are webcam modules in the kernel?? (for what webcam)

I have never use a webcam .. i want to get one that will work with gentoo

THANKS!!!!!!!!!
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MattElmore · n00b Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Posts: 29

I have gotten a logitech quickcam working. Support isn't built into the kernel, but you can google around and find a couple drivers that will produce something that will work. This thing cost less than $20 if you want a good webcam this isn't the one to get.

If you want quality, find a cam that uses a PCI capture card (preferably a brooktree or bttv chipset), assuming you have a free PCI slot.

azote · Guru Joined: 17 Sep 2002 Posts: 415

if for my laptop...

so it must be usb or firewire...
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Thowil · n00b Joined: 12 Apr 2003 Posts: 23 Location: Germany/KO

I've a Camstick XXL (USB) working here...
This one seems to be idetical to the sticks sold by aiptek and uses the stv680 chip.
Support for the webcam mode is in the latest vanilla sources and downloading photos from the stick is possible using a small tool calles pencam2.
But don't think that quality is to good... it's just a webcam after all :wink:

Slurp53 · Apprentice Joined: 14 Jun 2002 Posts: 255 Location: Iowa

Try a D-Link DSB-C100. Costs around $20. Picture quality is fair. It uses the well know, well documented ov511 kernel module. Then you can watch your kids in the other room on xawtv.

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puggy · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 11:27 pm Post subject:

This is more a warning than a reccomendation. Don't buy a creative PC-CAM of any description. They work pretty well (most of the time) in windows, and the features are quite good as you can wander about with it as a digital camera as well. but linux support is currently not working (Although I'm sure the guys over at spca50x@sourceforge will get it there eventually). The digital camera part apparently works in linux, but I've been having problems with gphoto2 in gentoo anyway.

Hope you find something good. :-)

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jlg · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 2:27 am Post subject:

I have a logitech QuickCam Pro and it works very well at 640x480.

This site http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/ explains how to set it up and others also.

azote · Guru Joined: 17 Sep 2002 Posts: 415

thanks for the comments!!

but I use the kernel 2.5.x , you think that will matter ????

(I dont use 2.4.x because of problems with cpu usage on my laptop)
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azote · Guru Joined: 17 Sep 2002 Posts: 415

so if I buy one of the webcam that show here http://alpha.dyndns.org/ov511/cameras.html
I must be ok
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modal · Apprentice Joined: 02 Oct 2002 Posts: 277

I have the coveted 3com homeconnect camera, after I spent a month tracking it down. but, i have yet to be able to get it working. It worked fine when I ran windows...but, now i can't seem to do anything with it, even though the kernel recognizes it and uses the vicam module for it...but, it just turns on and it doesn't actually take picture of anything. oh well.

giant · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 107

I got a Philips 740K - the real name is something like Quickcam TS Pro Deluxe whatever ;-)

Module is in the kernel, its usb and the quality is very good.

Check google for philiops and the pwcx module.

Works nice , had zilch problems setting up last night.

xianx · Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 10:12 pm Post subject:

Roguelazer · Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 10:19 pm Post subject:

I have a QuickCam Express. It doesn't work. The compile fails with about 15 pages of errors when building the qce (quick cam express) usb module from the internet. Apparently, it won't work with higher than 2.4.20, and I have 2.6.

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