Webcam choice

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 08 November 2006 19:13, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 16:04 -0800, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > On 11/7/06, Philip Walden <pwaldenlinux at pacbell.net> wrote:
> > > This site lists a driver for lots of webcams, but not the one you
> > > listed.
> > >
> > > http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html
> >
> > Good luck with that.  It was horribly unstable in FC5 for the longest
> > time.  Then about a month before FC6 was released he released a new
> > version which was finally stable.  Now its broken yet again in FC6.
>
> Thats what's killing me. I made that thing successfully in about a
> minute with FC5 kernel 2187 and FC5 kernel 2200 killed it. So, I went
> and dnloaded kernel 2187. Then the video blew up. xorg couldn't do a
> generic install of my nVidia. So, from command line I yum re-installed
> the nvidia rpms which promptly re-installed the 2200 kernel again.
> <scheeesh> It hurts my widdle head. I'm pretty positive it blew up at
> kernel 2200. It was really sweet to have the webcam work. It felt
> like...
> 			VICTORY!
>
> <wayward4now begs> "Why me Lawd!? Why me!?"
>
I do wonder how much effort this is worth.  It's galling, though, when it was 
working two years ago.  Talk about advancing backwards!

Anne
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