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Re: Lego Camera and legOS
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
Date: 
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... (...) (24 years ago, 22-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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