Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
On Friday 10 June 2005 07:48, Clayton wrote:
Easiest to check the supported hardware database on the SuSE (Novell) website. There you will geta goo idea of how well a particular scanner works. Compare what's available where you are to the list...
This might be true for scanners, and there's also this list, as I found out:
http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html
Searching for webcams on Novell's site doesn't give any result. So I'm still hoping that someone will recommend something.
I only found this page http://alpha.ovcam.org/ov511/cameras.html
But it still seems that a lot of these webcams need effort to get going. I need one with everything already in the OS. It's not for my own use, it's for a good number of stations. They have to be plug and really play.
I only have a lowly Creative Labs webcam (ov511 based) and it's been working for years without any effort. I haven't upgraded any of my USB hardware in ages, but I get by fine with the stuff below Scanner: Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection 610 FlightGear/X-Plane: CH Products, Inc. Flight Sim Pedals Genesys Logic, Inc. Card Reader Printer: Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 840c FlightGear/X-Plane: CH Products, Inc. Flight Sim Yoke Camera: Kodak Co. DX3600 Serial Port: Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port OmniVision Technologies, Inc. OV511+ WebCam The place to check out what works out of the box and what doesn't ...... http://www.linux-usb.org/devices.html Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks