I finally had my camera working in Linux
Those who have read my previous post entitled “When Linux Becomes a Christian Ally” knows for sure that I can’t make my Intel Pocket PC Camera work on Linux - until today! I once more got the urge of making things work when I needed to download the recent photos from Kei’s 5th Birthday. I tried the Java Implementation by David Morgan which worked before but now no longer works (for some reason) in Fedora Core 2. I then tried tinkering around GPhoto and looked for supported cameras that uses the same chipset as my Intel Pocket PC Camera. Guess what, I found a match! The match was the “Creative PCCAM 300″ camera which uses the same spca500a chipset by Sunplus. All that was needed was this:
gphoto2 –usbid 0×8086:0×0630=0×041e:0×400a -P
That did the trick. Photos started to download and I was very very very happy. Honestly, I laughed for about 5 minutes! If you happen to have the same problem or find this post useful, please feel free to post a comment.
August 2, 2004 · Posted in Technology
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