Using a USB camera in Severn

Samuel Flory sflory at rackable.com
Tue Aug 26 20:42:16 UTC 2003


dsavage at peaknet.net wrote:

>Some time back I bought an UltraPort USB camera for my IBM ThinkPad. It
>works great with NetMeeting and other apps under W2K, but isn't supported
>under XP (another good reason not to upgrade).
>
>Just for giggles and grins, I decided to try it with Severn. Lo and
>behold, 'lsusb' sees it as Bus 001 Device 004. "Very cool," I thought,
>then "OK, now what?"
>
>Can someone tell me what device in /dev this corresponds to, and suggest a
>couple of Severn applications I might be able to use it with?
>  
>

  Try gtkam, or if it's like my sony try the usb mass storage driver.  
(modprobe usb-storage; dmesg)

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Sam Flory  <sflory at rackable.com>






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