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Anonymo

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Registered: 2005-04-07

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Webcam ID

i been having trouble figuring out how to make my friend's webcam to work.  the trouble is that the cd has been lost so I can't even make it work in Windows XP.  So I was trying to pinpoint which camera it is exactly and it seems, by the picture I found on the internet, to be the  "Hewlett Packard EW193AA Personal Web Camera".  It only says HP on it

http://www.dealtime.com/xPF-Hewlett-Packard-EW193AA
http://www.shopping.com/xPO-Hewlett-Packard-EW193AA

i can't find any working drivers for Windows XP for the CIF Simple Chip or something like this.  I plugged it into an Ubuntu box before I formatted it [ubuntu] and installed Arch and it worked.

raul ~  $  lsusb
Bus 002 Device 006: ID 093a:2460 Pixart Imaging, Inc.

i been trying to figure out which driver to use.  It seems to me, by information on the internet, that it uses a driver called pac207, which i don't know what it is or how to get it.  I added myself to the hal,video,audio,camera groups.

http://lwn.net/Articles/291036/
pac207        093a:2460    PAC207 Qtec Webcam 100

i really haven't done webcam connections before.  i tried it with the cheese program in gnome and it only showed the static and the rainbow colored screen.

Last edited by Anonymo (2008-08-13 21:51:54)

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: Webcam ID

So you're trying to find the driver for Arch? Search for gspca. I don't know if the stuff in AUR is helpful, or you just need to load a module.