Comment 13 for bug 276949
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| Sudipto Sarkar (xtremethegreat1) wrote | #13 |
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Scott Price wrote:
> I'm not sure, but I think someone may be working on this particular driver,
> [help me out guys, you would know better than I.] In the meantime, I have
> an old Creative Labs webcam that I found laying around. It works for what I
> need in Linux most of the time. HP is not going to be helpful in any way.
> They seem to have an exclusive thing going on with MS -- and yet, they seem
> to have a whole new department having to do with Open Source. Go figure.
> They're trying to find a way to profit even from this -- but without any
> support. Oh well, keep on chuggin' along. Eventually there should be
> something that resembles a driver for this odd duck. ;-)
>
> Just a thought from left-field... I think one obstacle may be that the HP
> webcam advertises itself as a sound card, due to what is supposed to be a
> built-in mic, but the sound quality sounds a little more like a tin-can in a
> storm. At least that's my uneducated guess about the USB description. Would
> I be warm or just going further out of the park?
>
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Sudipto Sarkar
> <email address hidden>wrote:
>
>
>> The new kernels are out. And yet I do not find the driver.
>> :(
>> Man, I'm in serious trouble and I don't want to switch back to another
>> pirated edition of Windows.
>>
>> --
>> No driver for HP Webcam - 15b8:6002
>> https:/
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I hope I had an old linux supported camera too.
I don't even think someone is working for the drivers. HP - a big no no. They'd rather abandon Linux users, because they don't like Linux. What they don't know is that Windows sucks and they'd support Windows alone. Ubuntu developers - They have other work to do. Rather, one has to have the hardware specifications to make the driver. One can't just guess and write drivers. So, without HP's contribution, I don't think this would ever be possible. Let's just hope that someday HP makes up the mind to help us all.