[ltp] Ultraport Camera II

[Alex Deucher]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:14:44 -0500, Crispian Thorne <linux@crispian.org> wrote:
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> I'm toying with the idea of getting an Ultraport Camera for my T21.
> http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=1201&uid=psg1MIGR-4NPRG4&loc=en_US
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> I've done a little Googling that seems to suggest it can be made to work
> using a kernel patch or usbvideo package... do any of you have any
> experience with it?
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> I'd like to give it a try, but I don't want to waste the money if it's
> just gonna drive me nuts!

It will probably drive you nuts.  AFAIK, the utracam driver was
something of a hack for 2.4 kernels.  it was never submitted upstream
and will probably take some work to make it work with 2.6 kernels. 
Also since the driver was reverse engineered, it was missing some
features.  Ultraport is basically a USB port so if you felt like
hacking on it you could probably use a USB snooper in windoes to
figure out the camera protocol.  this was what the original author did
as I recall.

Alex

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