Re: new camera
On Saturday 27 June 2020 14:28:20 songbird wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Greetings all;
> >
> > Just got a new camera, fawcny endoscope, I intend to use for
> > machine.
> >
> > Moderately high priced, 5 Megapixel, autofocus.
> >
> > But this stretch machine can't find it amongst all the other usb
> > stuff. It doesn't have cheese, and vlc doesn't recognize it.
>
> usually new devices lag drivers in linux enough that if
> you are not running a more recent kernel you may not get
> it to work.
>
> might be worth trying with a newer kernel or a more
> recent distribution.
>
That won't happen until the developers get all the kinks worked out of a
new 5.x.x kernel and RTAI. But they are busting ass trying to make it
work for buster as I write this... Wheezy's semi-original 3.4.9 kernel
was the last time it was stable. Even that claimed it was PAE capable,
but never was, so its best with only 2 gigs of dram in a machine if you
want to keep it out of swap.
And thats the sort of machine this camera has to work in.
> that's all i can suggest. :) gl...
>
>
Thanks songbird. Stay well and safe now.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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