Dear all, I recently got a "Creative Webcam Go Plus" and want to use it under SuSE 6.4 (Kernel 2.2.14). On the Creative's website I only can find info/drivers for both Windoze and MacOS. Has anyone among you experienced such an installation under Linux? Any hints will be very welcomed! Thanks a lot in advance and best regards, Martin
I recently got a "Creative Webcam Go Plus" and want to use it under SuSE 6.4 (Kernel 2.2.14). On the Creative's website I only can find info/drivers for both Windoze and MacOS. Has anyone among you experienced such an installation under Linux? Any hints will be very welcomed!
I was looking for a webcam recently and saw in several places that the Webcam Go Plus is not supported under linux because it has a non-standard chip in it (ie. not an OV511). Unless things have changed in the last 6 weeks or so, you're out of luck.
I recently got a "Creative Webcam Go Plus" and want to use it under SuSE 6.4 (Kernel 2.2.14). On the Creative's website I only can find info/drivers for both Windoze and MacOS. Has anyone among you experienced such an installation under Linux? Any hints will be very welcomed! I was looking for a webcam recently and saw in several places that the Webcam Go Plus is not supported under linux because it has a non-standard chip in it (ie. not an OV511). Unless things have changed in the last 6 weeks or so, you're out of luck. I have a creative webcam III [USB]. I know it isn't supported under Linux yet [which is a real pain the behind as I hate Win98 as the comp is too slow for the camera... or rather the OS is ;o)] My main question is... where do I find information about new things being supported in Linux [as
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Derek Fountain wrote: they happen]? Is there a unified site for this? Thanks, Jon Jeffels -- ...ooO(The Purple Tiger)Ooo... ...ooO(Powered by SuSE Linux!)Ooo... ...ooO(PGP Key available upon request)Ooo... Key fingerprint = CA 82 C6 18 1E 21 17 04 E8 F2 FC 6C 96 F6 A8 73
I have a creative webcam III [USB]. I know it isn't supported under Linux yet [which is a real pain the behind as I hate Win98 as the comp is too slow for the camera... or rather the OS is ;o)] My main question is... where do I find information about new things being supported in Linux [as they happen]? Is there a unified site for this?
There isn't one single source of information that I have found, but google does a pretty good job of locating this sort of information, as does deja. I started at http://www.linux-usb.org and followed the link from there to http://alpha.dyndns.org/ov511/cameras.html. I suggest you read the docs at that second link - your Creative Webcam 3 works fine under Linux.
On 04-Jan-2001 The Purple Tiger wrote:
I have a creative webcam III [USB]. I know it isn't supported under Linux yet [which is a real pain the behind as I hate Win98 as the comp is too slow for the camera... or rather the OS is ;o)] My main question is... where do I find information about new things being supported in Linux [as they happen]? Is there a unified site for this?
Thanks, Jon Jeffels
LWN carries a list of weekly updates to Freshmeat which may be useful - the only problem I found is that so much gets updated each week you spend about a week reading what has been updated. Try http://www.lwn.net/ and then look at the bottom of the Announcements section. Best of luck, Graham Smith ----------------------------------
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