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Henry Bremridge wrote: > On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 11:41:02AM +0100, Neil Stone wrote: > >> I might also be able to source some of these.. >> >>> Can we raise funds for the lug, through selling banners on website, it >>> just helps to cover costs, of getting some of the above. It may also >>> help local businesses too. >>> >>> Paul >> Raising funds for DCLUG is a good idea, and yes we can do it.. it will >> help to fund future events where we might need to pay for the rental of >> a hall for example.. >> > > Frankly having spent the last 2 hours or so trying to find a driver for a webcam > (Sweex or Q-tec 300), I would love it if some local suppliers could advertise > linux friendly hardware > > anyway it now looks like I might be forced to run winxp under vmserver (thanks for > the ideas yesterday..) > > ps and thanks to rob for getting the sweex wireless apparently working on his > machine (we could not get any wireless connection going while there). > No problem Henry. I should have brought along my router we could have tested it properly then. Talking about web cams, the software I was thinking of for Linux is called Motion. It runs in the background as a daemon and tracks motion on your web cam (or TV/Video capture card) and can either record the output as a JPG or MPEG4 AVI video. It has an embedded web server to help being accessible from the internet. Although it would be great if GAIM (or whatever it's called now) had support for webcams with audio connecting to MSN Messenger on Windows XP (or Yahoo messenger on XP), this might solve your problems. Other than that, you may be interested in an Edimax IP-1000 network IP camera. This can do single frame capture or motion capture (although saying that I haven't managed to get it to capture decent motion on Linux yet, but it does the job for the Gemini FM webcam). It also has a proprietary ActiveX control for Internet Explorer which enables pretty good motion. Hope this helps. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html