shirish wrote:
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On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 21:42, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
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it properly, find out if the cam has the same chipset and if so, follow the installation instructions. Please read the entire doc and its links before doing anything else.
https://groups.google.com/group/microdia/web/testing-microdia-driver-draft
Hi all, Rony its a pretty interesting and useful document. Do you or anybody know :-
a. Which is most used chipset in the cheap webcams we have in the market
For e.g.
http://computers.shop.ebay.in/items/Web-Cams__W0QQ_catrefZ1QQ_sacatZ118391#
Although the best would be to know which are good, cheap and functional (or can be made functional with some minimal stuff on GNU/Linux) .
While the OP can't get it working, I'm looking for one which works on the same.
At a client's residence, I tried out the Intex Laptop clip-on camera, the one with 3 LEDs on each side. The OS was Ubuntu 8.04(?) and I had to simply download a webcam viewer software to view the cam. It was detected automatically. However, if you got a laptop, the best thing is to pre-load a webcam software for your desktop (kde or gnome) and try out the cam in the shop itself.