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-----Original Message----- From: Rob Beard [SMTP:rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 9:40 AM To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [LUG] hardware: webcams (information) Quoting Tom Brough <tombrough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:I am very happy to report that not only does my Chicony Twinkle USB PC Camera have driver support (sn9c102 bridge chip with PAS106 sensor), but Gnomemeeting-1.2 (released on 13th) now supports V4L2 (which is what the above driver supports). Unfortunately you will need to run a later 2.6.x kernel, but at least its now supported as part of the standard kernel distro. At 12.49 (see: http://www.thecomputershop.co.uk ) its not bad, the quality is better than one of my Labtec's from Argos. The design is better than the Labtec's as the base is wider and the tilt / swivel mechanism is more robust. For the price I am very happy with the quality of picture. For peace of mind please check you have a sn9c102.ko module before purchasing. Note also that Argos sell the next model up which is more expensive because it supports internal mic. I haven't got one of those so I couldnt say if it works or not ! Tom.Tom, Where did you get a driver for this and what distro are you using? I got two of these cameras the other day, and I was surprised that they are currently on buy one get one free, well at least in the Exeter store they are. Works nicely in Windows, I just can't seem to find a working driver, the one I did find won't seem to compile properly. I'm using Fedora Core 3 at the moment, although I've been going through loads of different distros until I can settle on one that I can get on with. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.
Downloaded latest kernel for FC2 last night kernel-2.6.9-1.6_FC2.rpm IIRC. sn9c102.ko comes as part of the kernel tree. (didnt even need to compile the source). Suprised that FC3 doesnt support it do you have the latest kernel installed ? For source you need http://www.linux-projects.org/modules/news/ You where lucky I went to buy another today in the Torbay branch and found out that the BOGOF deal had just ended .... talk about bad timing ..... :-( Note that the driver uses V4L2 and not V4L. The driver has been around for a while but I really needed support for Gnomemeeting hence the wait for gnomemeeting-1.2. See http://www.gnomemeeting.org usual dependancy hell that goes on with "latest and greatest" / RH the trick (if your a FC2 user that is) is to "pinch" the pwlib-plugins-v4l2 from the Suse 9.1 download set as its not supplied as part of FC2 download set. I think this is because V4L2 is support in gnomemeeting is marked as experimental and RH tend to be on the cautious side even with FC. Well anyway it worked for me ! Now if I could only persaude someone to resurrect opent120 project and get and api for T.126 protocol and then I could have remote whiteboarding as well. Its a shame because NetMeeting has this already I would like to see gnomemeeting going from being a good tool for video conferencing to being a very good tool for colaborative remote working. My "Big Idea" for the comming year is to get a school in country A linked up with a school in country B using where ever possible GNU/Linux tools. Time will tell. Anyway, if you are still struggling after trying the above drop me an email off list. Tom. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.