![]() I fired-up usbview, wrote down the chipset and manufacturer ID(s), and used this information to track down XP drivers for the webcam. I was about to send him to the nearest computer store when I decide to give Linux a chance, and look and behold, not only did Fedora Core 5 detect the webcam chipset (or actually udev did), it also installed the right drivers for it – in short, it worked out of the box. (He lost/throw away the driver CD + box XP’s search didn’t come up with anything and the webcam’s name didn’t come in Google) ![]() The installation itself was rather event-less, but no matter what I tried, I couldn’t find drivers for his no-name webcam. Here’s a couple of stories to prove my point.Ī couple of months ago a friend of mine brought his dead PC, asking me to fix (read: reinstall XP) on it. Ignoring for a second the “free” (Free as beer, free as speech) and security factors, Windows severely lacks diagnostic tools. ![]() I doubt that it’ll be able to -boot- the XP installer on this machine. We both know that out of the box, using no 3rd-party drivers, XP is POS.
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