[KLUG Members] web cams

Todd Pillars todd at terralabs.com
Fri Jan 13 23:26:00 EST 2006


On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 23:51 -0500, britz at whitemice.org wrote:
> I am fiddling with my parents old IBM pc 365 dual PPro, and am running red hat
> 9.0 I believe (shrike version). They want to use a wed cam, and picked up a
> logitech quickcam. In order for it to work do you have to call someone or can
> you go to a site to test it. I am trying to use gnome meeting (video
> conferencing). Seems to be the only choice under this linux version. Or is
> there something in the archives on this very subject. I did not find anything,
> but I could have overlooked it.
Not all quickcam versions work with Linux let alone something that
"old" (kernel 2.4). If the cam is a "Pro" model you have a fighting
chance. If not models 3000 & 4000 were reported to work.

You could try this.
http://mia.ece.uic.edu/~papers/volans/quickcam.html

Todd



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