Greg Schmidt wrote:
>
> Anyone have any suggestions on hardware/software for a webcam? I've been
> poking around and most of the solutions I'm seeing are looking a bit
> trouble-prone. Maybe I'm not looking in the right places. I'm looking for
> something that uses USB, and I want to run it on a Mandrake 8.1 box. I saw
> that Phillips had binary Linux support, and they were looking about as
> Linux-friendly as anyone gets, but I thought I'd see what the SLUGs had to
> say before I put money on the counter.
We have a bunch of Creative cams around that work great. I think
they're about $40 on the web on average and you can probably find them
cheaper.
Make *SURE* you get the right version though. The bottom of mine says:
CT6840
I believe this is the "Webcam Go" or something like that. Pay attention
to the model number rather than what's on the box because Creative will
put the same name on different hardware and it's the hardware that
matters.
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