Dear All, I have an old Alaris webcam that I got from Earthlink free a couple of years ago. I would love to get this working with my Suse8 if possible. This is a color webcam that hooks up to the keyboard and parallel port. I have researched this and found very little except it appeared that some may have had it working in Linux. I found no details about it other than that. Should I try gqcam , camstream, or some other program? Does anyone have any ideas of how to attempt to get this working? My system is an Athlon xp 1600+, 512 megs of memory, onboard video and sound. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Marcia
On Sunday 23 February 2003 17:07 pm, Marcia wrote:
Dear All,
I have an old Alaris webcam that I got from Earthlink free a couple of years ago. I would love to get this working with my Suse8 if possible. This is a color webcam that hooks up to the keyboard and parallel port. I have researched this and found very little except it appeared that some may have had it working in Linux. I found no details about it other than that. Should I try gqcam , camstream, or some other program? Does anyone have any ideas of how to attempt to get this working? My system is an Athlon xp 1600+, 512 megs of memory, onboard video and sound. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Marcia
Try camstream, but check the links on that website too. IIRR, you'll find more info on webcams on linux (the snowball affect). Eventually you should find something for that particular webcam. (BTW, camstream works great for me with my Philips, and they don't make webcams anymore (at least they can't be bought very easily in the states), so who knows). John
On Sunday 23 February 2003 20:23, John wrote:
camstream works great for me with my Philips, and they don't make webcams anymore (at least they can't be bought very easily in the states), so who knows).
Yes, camstream is very nice. It works great with my Philips cam also. In my opinion the best to get now that the Philips cams aren't available is Logitech Quickcam 3000 Pro or 4000 Pro. These give great pictures and work very easily with the pwc module built into recent Linux versions. Learn more here: http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/ *************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net ***************************************************
Bryan Tyson wrote:
On Sunday 23 February 2003 20:23, John wrote:
camstream works great for me with my Philips, and they don't make webcams anymore (at least they can't be bought very easily in the states), so who knows).
Yes, camstream is very nice. It works great with my Philips cam also. In my opinion the best to get now that the Philips cams aren't available is Logitech Quickcam 3000 Pro or 4000 Pro. These give great pictures and work very easily with the pwc module built into recent Linux versions.
Learn more here:
http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/
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Dear John & Brian, Thanks for your suggestions. I downloaded camstream and configure worked OK but then I got error messages for Make. They are: make make[1]: Entering directory `/home/marcia/camstream-0.26.2/lib/ccvt' gcc -c -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_INTELCPU=1 -DHAVE_MMX=1 -o ccvt_mmx.o ccvt_mmx.S gcc -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_INTELCPU=1 -DHAVE_MMX=1 -Wall -g -O3 -c -o ccvt_misc.o ccvt_misc.c ar rcv libccvt.a ccvt_mmx.o ccvt_misc.o a - ccvt_mmx.o a - ccvt_misc.o ranlib libccvt.a make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/marcia/camstream-0.26.2/lib/ccvt' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/marcia/camstream-0.26.2/camstream' make -C gui make[2]: Entering directory `/home/marcia/camstream-0.26.2/camstream/gui' /usr/local/bin/uic -o ChannelSelector.h ChannelSelector.ui make[2]: /usr/local/bin/uic: Command not found make[2]: *** [ChannelSelector.h] Error 127 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/marcia/camstream-0.26.2/camstream/gui' make[1]: *** [gui] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/marcia/camstream-0.26.2/camstream' make: *** [all] Error 2 I am a newbie with things like this , so does anyone know what I may be missing? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia
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