2 Apr
2001
2 Apr
'01
1:48 a.m.
--- "M.Buckett" <M.Buckett(a)dcs.hull.ac.uk> wrote:
Huh? What about linux, freebsd, and friends.?
Drivers for the webcam (Creative Webcam 1) only really existed for Windows
95. A linux driver is about on the net but it looks pretty beta.
I built a 486SLC box in a tiny case with a 2-slot ISA riser card for my WebCam.
There was only enough room for the I/O card (parallel port) and network card.
No Video. The OS is LRP, Linux Router Project. I grabbed one of the
implementations of the Connectix QuickCam drivers for Linux, ncftpput and
a looping script and smashed them together into a ".lrp" file. It does take
8Mb of RAM, but that's because LRP loads from a single floppy and decompresses
to a RAM drive. Once this thing boots, it never references the floppy again.
The evidence is at http://penguincentral.com/webcam/
-ethan
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For a while I
had a parallel port webcam running of a 386sx20 with 4MB>
of RAM and it ran
Windows 95. While it was slow it did get the job
The catch with using w95 regardless of speed, it that for many cases its
the only game in town if you want network services, ie winsocket etc.