Webcam choice

[Philip Walden]

Anne Wilson wrote:

>On Wednesday 08 November 2006 00:01, Philip Walden wrote:
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>>This site lists a driver for lots of webcams, but not the one you listed.
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>>http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html
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>PCLine is a store home-brand, so the webcam is almost certainly a re-badge of 
>something else.  Unfortunately, I have no clue what.  I can't even find out 
>the chipset.  I suppose I could post up a picture of it somewhere and hope 
>that someone recognises it as another brand, but that's a very long shot.
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>As I said, I bought it because the tldp page said that the PCline PCL-100K 
>works in linux.
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>Anne
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If it is a USB cam, then the dmesg  log may give clues as to the chip 
inside.