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[ts-7000] Re: USB (audio and video) input?

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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: USB (audio and video) input?
From: "Yan Seiner" <>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 22:31:54 -0000
--- In  David Topper <> wrote:
>
> Hey thanks,
> 
> Unfortunately, I'm not running Debian.  I'm working
> off an old slackware box (under a deadline).  Besides,
> there is no qc-usb-xxx package for Slackware.  I
> suspect it includes some of the modules I already have
> though.
> 
> I have managed to compiled the pwc and pwcx drivers. 
> Unfortunately, they are no longer supported.  So I get
> garbled green pixels ... likely due to the fact that I
> can't load pwcx.o.  That module complains, as it's
> compiled against a precompiled libpwcx.a ... which is
> compiled with gcc v2 and my kernel is compiled with
> v3, etc...
> 
> So I think my Quickcam 4000 pro will simply not work
> with Linux. ;-(  I'll wait for someone to hopefully
> suggest a suitable alternative.
> 

IIRC the pwc project kind of died a brutal death, and was abandonded
by the original developer somewhere around v. 8 or 9.  There is a
newer version of the driver around that is a single module, and
doesn't require the pwcx stuff at all.

The newer version is definitely still supported.

http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/

--Yan





 
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