On Dec 18, 2007 10:25 AM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Dec 17, 2007 10:55 PM, Marek Mahut <mmahut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > What typo of CCD camera do you have? I'm wondering how > > hard is to pass the review process for kernel patches :) > > I don't have anything that's weight appropriately for moderate > backyard scopes, I'm interested in seeing if the Apogee line of USB > CCDs requires a driver or not. The Kstars documentation seems to > suggest that libusb is all you need for them. > > Kernel patches to the Fedora kernel aren't going to happen. It would > be easier to try to get them upstreamed, but that won't be easy > either. > Reading through the LWN Grumpy Editors guide to Cameras and his guide to doing the OLPC one.. it isn't easy to deal with since they all have hidden variables that you have no idea why you are setting at XYZ unless you want it to break. I haven't done anything with CCD's as all my imaging was done before CCD's were 'cheap'. We used a 1960's black and white TV camera for the image gathering... -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"
