Webcam (cpia) on laptop

[Jacob Nikom]

Hi,

I would like to thank you guys for your responses.
I already posted my question a couple of weeks ago
and did not get any responses, so I felt like asking 
strange question. Now I see that other people have 
problems with laptops - at least I am not alone.

Answer to Peter's suggestion about running WebCam on NT.
Yes, I was able to run it on my laptop using Windows NT. 
I had some problem with NT driver installation but finally 
I solved it.

My problem with WebCamII and Linux is that I cannot install 
the cpia driver - it reports that "the device is busy".
I have feeling if I could install the driver, it is going
to work. 

Actually I am not installing the latest version of the cpia
driver, but the one which already worked on my desktop.
Are they equivalent with different hardware?

Also, ThinkPad has different way of setting up the parallel 
port parameters. It is doing it not through usual BIOS setting
procedure which is OS independent. It does it through NT 
special routine. First, you have to download NT to manage your 
parallel port setting and after that reboot Linux. So I am 
not exactly sure how parallel port parameters stay during 
another kernel reboot.

What could be different in parallel port on ThinkPad from
usual parallel port? How I can verify the parallel port
parameters being in Linux? Is there any way to get more 
information about the problem than "the device is busy"?

Thank you for your support,

Jacob Nikom


Peter Pregler wrote:
> 
> On 22-Oct-99 Mads Bondo Dydensborg wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Peter Pregler wrote:
> >
> >> > I may be very wrong.
> >>
> >> I do know of at least one type of laptop where the Creative Webcam II
> >> does
> >> not work (not under win*) because of some power issue (somehow
> >> confirmed
> >> with tech-support). The final test in such a case is to try it under
> >> Win*.
> >> If it works there it should also run under linux.
> >
> >:-/
> >
> > I do not have access to MS Windows. (Oh joy, actually).
> 
> I envy you for that one. :) There is another test: you can plug in the
> parport to the laptop and the keyboard to a normal PC. That should work
> too. Just make sure that there is not too much static charge (or
> however you call that in English) around. Disclaimer: I am not liable for
> any damage caused to any system by this action. So use at your own risk.
> 
> Greetings, Peter
> 
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