Can anyone recommend a webcam?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 02:13:25PM -0400, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> 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(!).

Not anymore if they want a windows compatible logo.  Vista and Windows
7 logo requires webcams to be UVC.  And logitech invented UVC as far as
I recall.  They have on the other hand had a lot of buggy firmware that
made their UVC webcams not work well in the past.

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Len Sorensen
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