Steren Webcam

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Mon Nov 1 14:27:37 UTC 2010


Manuel Escudero wrote:
>
>
> 2010/10/31 Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur at gmail.com
> <mailto:sanjay.ankur at gmail.com>>
>
>     On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 14:56 +0300, Hiisi wrote:
>      > pe, 2010-10-29 kello 20:31 -0500, Manuel Escudero kirjoitti:
>      > > Hi! I've just bought a STEREN COM-111 Webcam and it do not work
>     with
>      > > cheese....
>      > >
>      > >
>      > > Is anyway to make this webcam work?
>      > >
>      > >
>      > > Thanks!
>      > >
>      > > --
>      > > <-Manuel Escudero->
>
>     Hello,
>
>     You might also want to look at
>
>     http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterWebcamSupportF13
>
>     If yours doesn't work, it would be a good idea to mail the person
>     in-charge so he can get it working for everyone :)
>
>     --
>     Thanks!
>     Regards,
>     Ankur
>
>     https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
>
>     "FranciscoD"
>
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>
> Humm thanks for the tips, First I would like to be more specific:
>
> Steren is a Mexican brand that provides electronic devices at low cost
> for many propouses... By using my virtualized Windows Machine I dicovered
> that this webcam is called a "ZSMC USB PC Camera" and it's driver is called
> "ZS0211" But obviously I can't tell if it works in Windows after
> installing the driver
> or not because I don't have a REAL Windows Machine and because linux
> does not
> recognize it Virtualbox it's unable to recognize it as well...
>
KVM (qemu-kvm) has an option to pass USB devices directly back into the VM, from 
which you can control them. It doesn't depend on driver support beyond the basic 
bit moving level. I don't know what the limitations of hypervisors which use the 
kernel features less directly might be, but direct USB support does work.


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