[mdlug] good deal on a web cam

Wed May 25 13:52:45 EDT 2011

On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 08:08 -0400, Carl T. Miller wrote:
> I get email from BargainCell occasionally, and they
> have a good deal on a USB web can starting in a few
> hours.  I don't know for a fact if it works in Linux,
> but I'll be surprised if it doesn't.
> <http://www.bargaincell.com/bargaincell_daily_deal.html?pstore=NL051711&utm_source=may17email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=test5&hq_e=el&hq_m=853347&hq_l=22&hq_v=0b6206842b>

Mine showed up today.  Plugged in.  Worked.

usb 1-1.2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0ac8, idProduct=3450
usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
usb 1-1.2: Product: Vimicro USB Camera (Altair)
usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: Vimicro
uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Vimicro USB Camera (Altair) (0ac8:3450)
input: Vimicro USB Camera (Altair)
as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.0/input/input19

openSUSE 11.4 2.6.37.6-0.5-desktop x86_64