[cpia] Hi!

[Peter Pregler]

On 21-Jan-2000 Luis Villa wrote:
>       Finally, what is the state of the drivers? I know I need to 
> upgrade to 2.3.x for this, but what does "semi-functional" mean,
> exactly? 

That is wrong. The driver is not yet working with 2.3.x though the port is
underway. The 0.5-version is submitted to Alan and might appear in the
kernel in version 2.2.16. For the tarball available right now any 2.2.X
will do.

> I don't need anything particularly fast or efficient, but I really don't
> want to write any C just to get a web-cam up and running. All I really 
> want is something that'll dump an image to a file every few seconds so 
> that I can ftp it to a server. Is that reasonably easy to do, or will 
> that require a lot of work? 

W3cam, webcam and camserv are working for months now. Of cause I cannot
guarantee anything. You might be the one that encounters the latest bug in
the latest and brightes firmware release etc. But that's life. :)

>       Oh yeah, one other thing. Performance. My laptop is only a 
> Pentium 200- will that be able to handle the driver and a reasonable 
> frame rate? I would think so, but just in case... 

In the parport case if you can use DMA for sure. As for PIO mode it might
suck all your CPU. But taking a picuture every second should be no problem.

-Peter

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