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On 7/1/2010 6:54 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: |
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> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 07:35:39PM +0100, Arnau Bria wrote: |
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>> I've an caer TravelMate 5720 and I'd like to use my webcam (Suyin). |
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>> I've read some docs and say that I should use uvc driver from kernel |
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>> and not linux-uvc driver from portage. But portage package also |
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>> contains user-space tools for USB cameras, so, if I use kernel driver, |
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>> How may I get the tools? |
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> What tools are you talking about? |
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>> Anyone who is using uvc could explain me his experience? |
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the original driver was built outside the kernel tree and was called |
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linux-uvc. the driver has since been added to the kernel and is no |
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longer necessary. tools available include media-video/luvcview which is |
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only available for ~x86 and media-video/guvcview. |
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James Wall |
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