webcam recommendations

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 8/14/06, Philip Walden <pwaldenlinux at pacbell.net> wrote:
> Ski Dawg wrote:
>
> >On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 17:07 -0500, tom poe wrote:
> >
> >
> >>If I buy the Target or Wal-Mart WinXP cheap ($10 to $15) webcam, will it
> >>run on FC5?  Is this one of those, better check for driver software,
> >>first things?
> >>Any help appreciated.
> >>Tom
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I did a quick Google search  and found this site that looks promising
> >for what you want.
> >
> >http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+webcam&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
> >
> >The WebCam HOWTO
> >http://www.linux.com/howtos/Webcam-HOWTO/index.shtml
> >
> >and from the above HOWTO, Specific Webcam Models
> >http://www.linux.com/howtos/Webcam-HOWTO/devices.shtml
> >
> >
> This site produces a driver that handles a lot of webcams
>
> http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html

eeeek.  run away.  the spca5xx driver is horribly unstable in FC5, and
its author doesn't care.

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