From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:13:43 +0000 Subject: Re: Webcam support Message-Id: <20070627171343.GA18964@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <8ac229cc0706270921h1730889fxd6fc890a7adf3967@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8ac229cc0706270921h1730889fxd6fc890a7adf3967@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 09:21:27AM -0700, Beth Koenig wrote: > Hello I work with the Deaf and I am trying to get webcam plug n play > support for Ubuntu. We use Ubuntu as our main OS and are training many > of our clients on it. Some on irc suggested I contact you guys and see > what could be done. The biggest complaint I get is that webcams don't > work. Any way you can help would be great. I am hoping to have that > support in future versions of Ubuntu. What specific webcam does not work? There are zillions of them, so you might want to contact the video-for-linux developers, they are the ones working on adding support to the kernel for a wide range of them. However I am currently working on adding screen-reader support to the kernel, so if you have questions about that, feel free to contact me off-list for that. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel