Can anyone recommend a webcam?

[Evan Leibovitch]

Giles Orr wrote:
> After Evan's previous recommendation of this cam I went and bought
> one.  If you're not using GNOME/KDE you'll have to do some mucking
> about for recognition/usability (I use Debian without either of the
> big two).  And in fact the video was offset both sideways and
> downwards, a problem I never could fix (I didn't try too hard - I'm
> also using kernel 2.6.26 which a comment by Len suggests may be a
> problem).  So yes: the cam delivered an image to my system ... but the
> image wasn't actually usable.  This may be fixable, but if you want
> immediate plug-and-play, this may not be the item.
>   
Darn. Sorry about that. I've used this model on numerous systems without
problems, but they've all been Ubuntu or Kubuntu.
The one I'm typing this from is Kubuntu 9.04 running 2.6.28

- Evan


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