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[tempestuous]

The Logitech Quickcam Express driver: qc-usb-0.6.5
from http://qce-ga.sourceforge.net/

and the Quickcam Messenger & Communicate driver: qc-usb-messenger-1.7
from http://home.mag.cx/messenger/
are closely related. The module name is the same in both packages, "quickcam".

qc-usb-0.6.5 supports these USB device ID's -
046D 0840
046D 0850
046D 0870

qc-usb-messenger-1.7 supports these USB device ID's -
046D 08DA
046D 08F6
046D 08F5
046D 08F0

After installing the correct driver package for your device, load the modules

[tempestuous]

EDIT: Drivers for Puppy4 removed, because the Puppy4 kernel since alpha1 is now completely different.

[tempestuous]

Here are the same Quickcam driver packages for Puppy ver 2.12-2.16.

The "gspca" webcam drivers are here
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=148302#148302

[john biles]

Hello tempestuous,
Excellent work, thank you. Just one question "Can you install all 3 drivers including gspca one your system or should you only install one driver"
Have you had any problems in testing with more than one driver installed?

[tempestuous]

The 2 different variations of the Quickcam webcam drivers both have the same module name, so only one can be installed at a time.

But if you so wish, you can additionally install the "gspca" webcam driver, and even the "uvcvideo" webcam driver, without any interference between these different drivers ... until you try to load more than one module at a time. Then they might start to interact adversely.

[john biles]

Thanks tempestuous