[geeks] My hacked CVS video camera

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Fri Aug 5 22:21:57 CDT 2005


On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 09:48:43PM -0500, Michael Parson wrote:
> Cable built, used an old PalmIII->serial adapter I had for using my
> Earthmate GPS on the PalmIII.  First few tries with it haven't given me
> much yet, but if I slide the connector back and forth slowly, windows
> will pop up the "You've got a new USB Device 'Saturn'" stuff, and the
> camera shuts off.  The Ops program can't open the camera yet.

That's just a loose connector.

You need to download libusb (see www.mrbill.net/cvscam), and use its
wizard to create an .inf file for the camera.  Then, point WIndows at
that .inf file, then the libusb0.sys file. 

After that, Ops will be able to open the camera.

Bill

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bill bradford
houston, texas



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