Subj : Re: Looking for webcam for LAMP
To   : comp.os.linux
From : =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lin=F8nut?=
Date : Sun Nov 07 2004 09:02 pm

Charles A. Burge poked his little head through the XP firewall and said:

> I'm interested in setting up a webcam on my web server.  Since no vendors
> explicitly say that their cams work with Linux, I'm asking you all for
> advice on which brand / model to get.  I'm looking for one in the $50 to
> $100 range to produce still pictures for a web page.  I'm running Mandrake
> 9.1 with the default apache installation.  Also, if anyone could point me
> to a tutorial in setting up the camera, that would be great.
>
> TIA,
>
> Charles

See if this link is helpful:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Webcam-HOWTO/index.html

There is also a hardware-compatibility HOWTO.

Good luck!  Just make sure they don't catch you on the web picking your
nose!  <grin>

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