[cpia] Hi!

[Luis Villa]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Peter Pregler wrote:
> 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 thought the 0.5 version was for parport only. Does this mean there is no
USB support at this time? Not a big deal, but it would be nice to have the
option. 
 
> > 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. :)

Yep. I know all about the problems with "free" software- I'm not worried 
about that. 

> >       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.

Great! Thanks again for all the answers-
Luis

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