Re: USB Camera problems in Slackware 9.0, kernel 2.4.23

From: Laz (laz_at_linux.local)
Date: 12/29/03

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    Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 18:26:18 -0600

    On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 06:34:57 +0000, justlinu wrote:

    > In alt.os.linux.slackware Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@sympatico.ca> wrote:
    >
    >> Ok, I've got two USB Camera problems in Slackware 9.0 using a vanilla
    >> kernel 2.4.23.
    >
    >> 1) My wife bought me a "Centrios Clearpix Flexible Web Cam" from Radio
    >> Shack for Christmas. It is a 4 cm x 1.5 cm x 1.0 cm USB 1.1 connected
    >> web camera on a stiff flexible 30 cm long cable, intended for laptop
    >> use. It comes, of course, with the requisite MSWindows drivers and
    >> software. Linux kernel usb and hotplug support recognize it generally,
    >> but there seems not to be a driver for it. MSWindows calls it a "6029
    >> CIF" PC Camera.
    >
    > If you have the windows drivers you don't have a problem. Simply use
    > windows when you use the camera. I think you'll find the photo editing
    > software available for windows is far superior to that available for
    > linux.
    >
    > Linux makes a dandy internet/file server but a professional multimedia
    > workstation requires windows.

    I suggest that you stay away from the new "Lord of the Rings" movie, then,
    since virtually the entire film was rendered on a cluster of 200 Linux
    servers. Linux workstations were used for animation and special effects.
    In fact, you probably should avoid movies altogether, since almost all
    multimedia work in Hollywood movies is done on Linux.

    Linux took over from SGI (and Apple in the workstation area) due to
    comparable performance and something like a 10 to 1 price advantage.
    Windows was never a player.

    I think they use Windows for email and stuff, though, if that helps.

    Maybe not, though, come to think of it, since Windows is the only
    operating system that infects itself with worms and viruses through email.
     If they have any sense, they'll use Macs or Linux for email and web
    browsing, too.

    Hey, they probably use Windows in their offices. They can do that
    relatively safely, as long as they load up on virus scanners...and maybe
    turn off macros if they're using MS Word. Or Excel. Or...does Powerpoint
    have any worms yet? It's hard to keep track.

    :)

    Okay, I'm just kidding with you. I know Windows is everywhere. It comes
    pre-installed on 99.9% of the PCs sold in most countries, and most people
    think it was thrown in for free, so almost everybody uses it for one thing
    or another.

    I only wanted to refute your claim that "a professional multimedia
    workstation requires windows." This clearly isn't true. For low to
    mid-level professional multimedia work, Macs are superior to Windows
    boxes, and for the very highest level of multimedia, which is that
    produced by Hollywood, it's Linux from one end to the other.

    Windows has multimedia software for the very good reason that it can be
    extremely profitable to write and sell Windows software. There are, after
    all, hundreds of millions of Windows machines. This doesn't mean that
    Windows is the most suitable platform for multimedia. It doesn't even
    mean that Windows is moderately suitable for it. It simply means that
    there is money to be made in selling software to Windows users.

    Now, please go and recommend Windows solutions to your fellow Windows
    users in newsgroups dedicated to Windows. People come to Linux newsgroups
    looking for Linux solutions. 

    -- 
Laz
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