installing webcam on ubuntu 8.04

[willem]

Rosa Maria Nascimento Santos wrote:
> Hi everybody!
>
> I'm a new user of ubuntu. I installed ubuntu 8.04 (with kde) on my 
> laptop and it didn't recognized the webcam. My Laptop is a sony vaio-CR 
> processor intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo 2.1GHz. Would anybody know what should 
> I do to make it work?!
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Rosa
>
> Open a console terminal and type lsusb ,and see if the camera is in the list.

regards wim