image capture (was Feds and MIrcoslot

[Craig White]

Thomas Mondoshawan Tate wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 08:44:41AM -0700, Rusty Carruth wrote:
> > > Only reason I know about this is because I recently bought a Sony VAIO C1VN
> > > laptop and it came preloaded with ME (*shudder*). Of course, I installed
> > > Linux side by side with it to help to stop the carcinogen, but until I can
> > > write an image capture program using the new kernel interface, Win ME sticks
> > > around a little while longer.
> >
> > What kind of images?  If you have a digi camera (like Olympus D490 Zoom)
> > you might be able to use gphoto (I think its on freshmeat, or go to
> > www.gphoto.org (I think - email me offlist if I'm wrong)
> >
> > rc
> 
> When I was referring to a camera, I was referring to the "MotionEye" camera
> built into the VAIO. Only in recent kernels (2.4.7+) did they add proper
> support for the PIC chip in there to use the camera. Currently, the camera
> is treated as a special V4L device, but it only works with XawTV when it's
> window is 640x480x32bit color. Besides, I can't use it like a camera like
> what I was doing on the ME side, so I'm going to write my own camera capture
> program.
> 
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