webcam recommendations

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 8/14/06, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>
> >> http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html
> >
> > eeeek.  run away.  the spca5xx driver is horribly unstable in FC5, and
> > its author doesn't care.
>
> I have a little collection of webcams, on one webcam this driver works
> reliably.  On another, it freezes the whole FC5 box immediately in a way
> that only cycling the power can recover it.

Yup, that would be the horrific instability that I'm referring to.
According to the developer "it works fine in SuSE-10.1, so it can't be
a driver bug".

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