Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3644 mails)

[Eric Pierce <eric_suse@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- tomn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Eric, I'm glad you got a Sony USB digital cam
> working. I've been 
> watching for information to help me pick something
> for a webcam and 
> your post interested me. Went to Google and searched
> for Sony and 
> digital cam products (as in webcam) and came up with
> nothing for USA. 
> There was an interesting product and apparently it
> is(or has been) 
> marketed in the UK and Europe, but not here in USA.
> Is that the case for 
> the Sony cam you installed? That it's a non-US
> (maybe PAL format) 
> product?
Well, it's not a webcam, it's a Sony Digital Still
Camera - DSC-P1.  Anyway, my friend picked up this
camera in either Canada or Japan...

Eric
> > Just a little closure letter here...
> >
> > A friend brought over a Sony (USB) digital camera
> of
> > his (sorry, forgot the model #), and the /dev/sd*
> > drive came right up on the console as well as with
> an
> > 'fdisk -l'.  So everything I had been trying was
> > right... just the wrong camera.
> >
> > Here's a sniplet of a reply from Toshiba in
> regards to
> > my kind (too kind?) request for a Linux driver for
> my
> > PDR-M61.
> >
> > --snip--
> > "We do not support Linux at this time, and have no
> > immediate plans to add support for it."
> > --snip--
> >
> > Time to sell the camera!
> >
> > Thanks to all who wrote!
> > Eric



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