Jeremy Bair (oryx@chaos.ao.net)
Mon, 25 Oct 1999 15:27:10 -800
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> To: Robert Glinka <rglinka@sun.iwu.edu>
>From: Jeremy Bair <oryx@chaos.ao.net>
>Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 15:31:49 -0400 (EDT)
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>Greetings Robert,
>
> I have worked almost endlessly to get the QuickCam to function on
>the DEC Alpha Multia. It seems as though this alpha in particular does not
>have a PC style Parallel port. Nothing will seem to detect the camera in
>any way, and if I bypass detection, I receive the same parallel port data,
>which is a continuous line of 0xff data, with or without the camera
>connected. I haven't tried hooking up an actual printer or trying PLIP,
>but I do imagine that I won't get any satisfactory results.
>
>I would love to try out your QuickCam package on the box, hopefully I can
>take a look at the code a bit deeper and possibly obtain some hardware
>info on the UDB's Parallel ports.
>
>Thanks,
>Oryx
>
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>On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Robert Glinka wrote:
>
>> I have a small program that I created/modified from a larger distribution
>> of a color quickcam driver that does nothing but tell you what port the
>> quickcam is on. It has a list of ports to try hardcoded in (that you can
>> change if you need to) and then it will check them one by one to see if
>> there is a qcam there. If you are interested in this program e-mail me at
>> rglinka@sun.iwu.edu and I'll tar/gzip it and send it as an attachment, or
>> if you need me to, i'll even post it to my webpage.
>> One note though, this program REQUIRES that it has root access, or else it
>> can't access the port.
>>
>> hope this program will help you.
>> -rob
>>
>> On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Chuck Faranda wrote:
>>
>> > Can somebody lead me to info on how to configure and test a parallel
>> > port? I'm trying to hook-up a Qcam, but keep getting a "camera not
>> > found" error. I'm not sure if the port is even there. TIA.
>> > --
>> > Regards,
>> > Chuck Faranda
>> > http://www.se.mediaone.net/~chuckfa
>> >
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