Can anyone recommend a webcam?

William O'Higgins Witteman william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Tue Oct 13 18:13:25 UTC 2009


On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 04:42:23PM -0300, Marcelo Cavalcante wrote:
>Hi Willian,
>
>I don't think you should be worried about this. Almost 100% os the webcams
>will work on Linux. The new kernel versions are suporting almost 100% of the
>cams.
>
>If you use kernel >=2.6.29, u probably won't have problems to make it work.

To follow up, I realized that my wife's webcam is not in use when she is
away, so I could use that.  It is a UVC webcam, and it does "just work".
It is a Logitech Quickcam 9000 Pro.  Be warned though, that Logitech
makes most of the consumer-grade webcams non-UVC compliant(!).
-- 

yours,

William

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