On Thursday 06 January 2005 0712, somebody named Sean Jewett inscribed this
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Derrik,
Do you personally have planb working on your PM? If so, what
disto / version and what kernel
Well, I'm not Derrik, but I'll try to help anyway. :^) AFAIR, you'll need
to use a 2.4 kernel, unless someone's fixed the planb driver in 2.6. I
tried to get it running on my 7600 a while ago, but never managed to get
it to work quite right - I'm pretty sure some people have had it working,
though.
/ xawtv/v4l version have you had the
success with? I've spent better than a month trying to find some
iteration / combination to make it work. At one point it looked like
xawtv 3.38 worked with a patched 2.4.18 kernel, unfortunately I've not
been able to duplicate that success (and the xawtv/v4l folks don't offer
3.38 as a tarball anymore).
I think I found .debs for xawtv somewhere when I was trying to make it
work, but that was a while ago and I don't know what version it was. Have
you checked apt-get.org yet?
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It's fustrating since I have 4 7500's at my disposal. It's the perfect
platform for a cheap webcam server, especially since most people don't
want to use them anymore. And while this is all going on, I had a
co-worker tell me he's got two AV capable G3's and 2 AV capable 7600's
that are mine. Make that 8 macs with capture ability that I'd like to
get online as webcam servers. :(
Gee...some people have all the fun. :)
NRH