Logitech Webcam - XP vs. Linux
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| jacog Jan 26, 2009 3:50 AM EDT |
About four years ago, I bought a Logitech webcam for my wife, who was running XP at the time. This was when she was still living in the US. A few weeks ago I dug the cam out of the cluttered pile o' dung I call my closet to set it up for use on three systems for Skyping: One running XP, one running Mandriva 2009.x and an Asus Eee, at the time still running the default Xandros. Getting it to work in Windows XP: We had lost the original Windies driver disk. This never bothered me, as I hardly ever install drivers off supplied disks, as they are usually out of date. Finding appropriate drivers for XP was easy enough. A quick Google search turned up many download locations all providing the same (rather large at 29MB) driver download. I installed it, rebooted (as it requested), plugged the cam in, but got the "New Hardware Detected" dialogue, which then proceeded to fail miserably at finding its own drivers. So, I uninstalled the drivers, used a "driver cleaner" application to make sure they are gone, and installed again. Same thing... no result. Conclusion: I must have downloaded the wrong drivers. So I downloaded one of those apps you get for Windows that supposedly will find drivers for you. The app (which was a trial version you have to pay for) worked fine, detected the webcam and downloaded a driver package... which turned out to be the same driver package I downloaded manually before. It installed it, and nothing. I am assuming if I had older drivers, then perhaps I could make it work. It could be that the drivers come with built-in redundancy that forces users to upgrade to newer hardware. Either way, the end is the same. Result: The cam still does not work in XP. Getting it to work in Linux: I plugged it in. |
| DiBosco Jan 26, 2009 12:20 PM EDT |
I found that it became impossible just to install Windows drivers for Logitech cams and you always had to install this hugely bloaty executable that then ran something that was always present in the system tray. I remember it being real resource hog and it ran very slowly. Like you, I just plug in on Mandriva and it just works, with the only down side being the picture quality isn't quite as good and you can't do the zoom in and out. How did you find it in those respects? |
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