Philips webcam

[anthony baldwin]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 03/01/2008, Gerald Dachs <ubuntu at dachsweb.de> wrote:
>   
>> Am Thu, 3 Jan 2008 22:01:20 +0200
>> schrieb "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen at gmail.com>:
>>
>>     
>>> I have just received a Philips SPC610NC webcam. I found this page
>>> linked from the Philips website, but I'd like to have a second opinion
>>> before I install this stuff:
>>> http://saillard.org/linux/pwc/
>>>       
>> Bad idea, because the pwc module is already part of every ubuntu kernel
>> package.
>>
>> Why do you search the web, but not your own machine?
>>
>> Gerald
>>
>>     
>
> Sorry, what do you mean by search my own machine? Teach me!
>   

Your own machine=Your computer....
You know, the one with ubuntu on it, on which you are reading this message,
which includes the pwc module that you need, already packaged with the 
kernel.

Of course, how to find that module might be unclear.
In all likelihood, if you plug the camera in, ubuntu will find it and it 
will
just work, because ubuntu will auto-detect the device and find the 
module for you.
Many peripherals just work now.
Worst case scenario, ubuntu will say, "Hey...dude...I found new hardware...
what do you want me to do with it?" and give you a dialog box in which
you can fish for the driver it needs, which, in all likelihood, will be 
listed in
there with other similar drives, because, at the very least, will know 
it's a webcam.

Personally, I know nothing about webcams, but I know that ubuntu had
no problem when I added a printer, or connected my Canon.
It just finds stuff and just works.

and some people still insist that Linux is too hard...
Linux rocks!

/tony

> Dotan Cohen
>
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>   


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