Hey Yan,
Thanks very much. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that
driver is 2.6 only. At least that's what the englinsh
install text suggests. Both my laptop and TS-7200 are
running older 2.4 kernels.
Bummer for me it seems.
DT
--- Yan Seiner <> wrote:
> --- 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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