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Re: Lego Camera and legOS
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
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Date:
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Tue, 22 May 2001 22:18:12 GMT
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David Wegmuller wrote:
> Hi,
> There are two versions of the Logitech QuickCam Express which use two
> different sensors and as far as I know, only one of them is supported by the
> alpha driver for Linux. I think that the Lego Cam (and your camera,
> maybe)uses the other sensor... I'll check and keep this listed posted. I've
> got the very first version of the driver to work on my laptop.
>
> Greetings,
> David
>
> PS: A "quick hack" driver is available at:
> http://wwwbode.in.tum.de/~acher/quickcam
>
> > AFAIK it is not possible yet. ISTR that the legocam is closely related to the
> > Logitech QuickCam express and the project to develop drivers for the latter
> > (look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/qce-ga/ ) will eventually provide the
> > ability to use the legocam. Unfortunately the project is still at Alpha level,
> > and you need at least kernel 2.4 to get it to work properly (although I have
> > heard that the USB backport works sometimes)..
> >
> > Even though I have 2.4.3, I still can't get my Quickcam express to work in
> > Linux with it, so they still have a way to go.
> >
> > HTH
IIRC, the identifier chip is different, so it returns a different ID, otheriwse it
is a regular QuickCam. Change the driver so it recognizes the different chip, and
it should work (at least this is what it seemed to be on the robotics mailing
list).
Andy
--
See my Visual Interface for leJOS at http://lvi.sourceforge.net
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| Hi, There are two versions of the Logitech QuickCam Express which use two different sensors and as far as I know, only one of them is supported by the alpha driver for Linux. I think that the Lego Cam (and your camera, maybe)uses the other sensor... (...) (25 years ago, 22-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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