[sclug] Security cameras/Web Cams

[Bob Franklin]

On Sun, 8 May 2005, Alan Pope wrote:

> alan at wopr:~ $ lsmod | grep pwc
> pwc                    78196  1
> videodev                9728  3 sn9c102,pwc
> usbcore               107384  7
> sn9c102,snd_usb_audio,pwc,snd_usb_lib,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
> alan at wopr:~ $ uname -a
> Linux wopr 2.6.10-5-386 #1 Tue Apr 5 12:12:40 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

You don't have the pwcx driver -- is that still separate, or has the patch 
merged it somehow?  That made a big difference to performance when using 
larger resolutions, in my tests (maybe just because I did them on a 
Celeron/333!).


> Alan Cox put it back in after all the bruhaha calmed down. It's not in 
> vanilla kernels, but is available as a patch, which my Ubuntu Hoary (and 
> previously Warty) both have.

Excellent.  I'm still unsure about which was the correct decision; 
idealism annoys me, but they [the kernel authors] are right in the sense 
that the distribution compilers are free to include it - I can't imagine 
any ordinary users are going to compile their own kernels, these days.

   - Bob


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