webcams

[Willy Hamra]

2009/2/21 Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>:
> 2009/2/21 Neil Winchurst <barnaby at drofle.com>:
>> My sister in law is visiting next week. That's fine except that she
>> thinks I am a bit weird because I use Linux instead of the other one.
>> She regularly uses a webcam to chat to her daughter in California, so
>> asks me why I can't do the same in Linux.
>>
>> Well, I have never thought about it before, but now I am wondering what
>> the situation is for us with Kubuntu Hardy. Anyone have any comments or
>> recommendations etc?
>>
>
> What model webcam do you have? Or are you asking about which webcam to
> buy? If so, what price range?
>
> In general, supported webcams run great.
>

good topic.
i never used a webcam on kubuntu yet, though i do have one. not a
famous make or anything, a generic USB webcam.
i plugged it only once, opened kopete, and noticed that kopete doesn't see it.
nowadays i don't use kopete anymore, i use amsn and skype from
medibuntu. do i need any driver? any package to get camera support? or
it works out of the box? i have no idea. like we need "sane" for
scanners, do we need anything for webcams?
thanks in advance

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Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computers and Billy Net.