On Saturday 27 June 2020 14:28:20 songbird wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Just got a new camera, fawcny endoscope, I intend to use for > > machine. > > > > Moderately high priced, 5 Megapixel, autofocus. > > > > But this stretch machine can't find it amongst all the other usb > > stuff. It doesn't have cheese, and vlc doesn't recognize it. > > usually new devices lag drivers in linux enough that if > you are not running a more recent kernel you may not get > it to work. > > might be worth trying with a newer kernel or a more > recent distribution. > That won't happen until the developers get all the kinks worked out of a new 5.x.x kernel and RTAI. But they are busting ass trying to make it work for buster as I write this... Wheezy's semi-original 3.4.9 kernel was the last time it was stable. Even that claimed it was PAE capable, but never was, so its best with only 2 gigs of dram in a machine if you want to keep it out of swap.
And thats the sort of machine this camera has to work in. > that's all i can suggest. :) gl... > > Thanks songbird. Stay well and safe now. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
