On Monday 30 April 2007 21:29, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello! > > I have installed etch in a sony vaio notebook with success. Now, I want > to install a webcam on it. I have looking the Webcam HOWTO > > http://www.linux.com/howtos/Webcam-HOWTO > > and I think that a SPCA50X or OmniVision based model would be fine... > However, I will appreciate very much any advice from user of this > list... > > Thanks in advance! > > Marcelo
We're not ignoring you Marcelo. I picked up a webcam from the Aldi , a Lifetec LT9388, which is omnivision, using the ov511 driver. It's not fantastic, but acceptable, and they had reduced the price from 25€ to 5€. I bought one on the off chance it might work, and it was ok, and as they had some more at the reduced price, I bought 2 more as spares. Back to reality. The omnivision (ov511) ones seem to be ok, but it's probably wise to check out the one you're thinking of buying first, to see if it works ok on Linux.Few links below. http://alpha.dyndns.org/ov511/cameras.html and for those using PCiA chipset http://webcam.sourceforge.net/ and another link http://tomatlab.videontv.org/webcam/webcamlinux.html It's no doubt worth doing a bit of googling as well. You may have to set some options to get the webcam to behave. I have camstream installed and the webcam displays in colour ok on that, but on xawtv I just got greyscale, and I think it was the same on aMSN. I had to add a line in /etc/modules as below to get colour in xawtv. ov511 force_palette=15 All the best. Nigel.
