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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@tribe.com>
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Subject: Re: Getting the quickcam to work
To: andrew@whine.com (Andrew Herdman)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 11:43:17 -0800 (PST)
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> I just got myself a quick cam yesterday, downloaded xfqam 1.02 and 1.03
> and 1.04, I had luck, once with 1.02, after that I get the same message
> with all the versions "Can't find a camera".  The camera is plugged in,
> and works fine with the windows 95 software.  I've tried setting the
> parallel port to all it's different modes (standard, bi-dir, EPP and
> ECP) with no change.  I'm probably missing something small here.  Oh yes
> i'm running on 2.1-RELEASE.

(this was with an earlier version of xfqcam, but...)

The fix for me was to just have the function that "finds" the quickcam 
hard coded to always return "found"... ie, don't probe for it, just
assume it's there.

-Archie

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Archie L. Cobbs, archie@tribe.com   *   Whistle Communications Corporation