[Linux4christians] Webcam recommendations?

[dcolburn at bibleseven.com]

We have a couple of clip-on USB 2.0 ArkMicro Web cams
that worked OK under Fluppy 013 (not sure of the camera
app that was in that) but they are not being recognized by
gphoto2.

They have built-in LED lights and worked well ... when they
were recognized.

They are recognized in Skype under both Fluppy and Puppy
dpup 5x9.

You might check with the list of supported devices in Arch
to see if it is supported.  They are very inexpensive online.

I will ask on the Puppy Linux forum if anyone knows why
gphoto2 is failing to recognize this Webcam and report back.

> I finally convinced my wife it was silly to set up our old landline 
> handsets to use as intercoms in the house when we could just use Skype 
> to get my attention while she's at one end of the house and I'm at the 
> other.  She really got into Skype, and she enjoys the webcam aspect of 
> face-to-face chat.
>
> But my Linux box is an old desktop system, no webcam.  Just to humor 
> the missus I'm going to get something to stick on the top of my 
> monitor.  Any of y'all use external (preferably USB) webcams that you 
> can tell me good or bad experiences getting it to work with Linux? 
>  I'm on Arch Linux with kernel 3.1.5.something, xorg 1.1.something, 
> and Gnome 3.2.something if that makes a difference.
>
> Peter B. SteigerCheyenne, WY
> /*PBS*/
>

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