[ubuntu-uk] Very cheap webcam

[Simon Greenwood]

On 30 May 2012 18:30, pete smout <psmouty at live.com> wrote:

> On 30/05/12 17:59, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 30 May 2012 17:56, pete smout <psmouty at live.com
>> <mailto:psmouty at live.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    Hi all,
>>
>>    I have just purchased a very cheap webcam (£1.00), and I cannot get
>>    *buntu to recognise it?!
>>
>>    The only details I have are:
>>
>>    PNP (plug and Play)
>>    CMOS colour sensors  ?
>>    24 bit true colour video mode
>>    USB interface
>>
>>
>>    "System Requirements"
>>    Pentium 200, or higher CPU
>>    win 98SE - XP
>>
>>    My Machine (s)
>>    Ideally It would be used with the laptop so I will give that ones
>> specs!
>>
>>
>>
>>    running Oneric (11.10)
>>    Kernel 3.0.0-20-generic
>>    Gnome 3.2.1
>>    Dual core Intel Core duo T5250
>>    3gb ram
>>
>>    Trying to use cheese but have got Kamoso installed and open to
>>    suggestions!
>>
>>    I have a driver on disk for Windows but cannot get any joy with wine
>>    or Mono-runtime
>>
>>    Any Ideas gratefully received
>>
>>
>> Grep for it in dmesg, you should at least be able to get a
>> manufacturer's name if it's connecting.
>>
>> s/
>> --
>> Twitter: @sfgreenwood
>> "TBA are particularly glib"
>>
>>
>>
>>  Hi,
>
> I hope this makes more sense to you than it does me!
>
> pete at petes-lappy:/var/log$ grep usb dmesg
> [    0.394321] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
> [    0.394339] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
> [    0.394388] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
> [    1.070556] usb usb7: hash matches
> [    1.604097] usb 3-1: new low speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd
> [    2.016067] usb 5-1: new full speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd
> [    2.298272] input: SONiX USB Device as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:**
> 1a.0/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0/input/**input5
> [    2.298444] generic-usb 0003:0C45:7428.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID
> v1.00 Mouse [SONiX USB Device] on usb-0000:00:1a.0-1/input0
> [    2.298471] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
> [    2.298474] usbhid: USB HID core driver
> pete at petes-lappy:/var/log$
>
> The web cam was the only thing plugged in to usb at the time of running...
>
> Hmm, looks like some Sonix devices are supported but not that one. It
*might* work with the Windows drivers and ndiswrapper: try extracting the
installer in Wine and install the driver with sudo ndiswrapper -i
/filepath/filename.inf where /filepath/filename.inf is the path to the
extracted files and the driver inf file. Video4Linux might also work but
again there's no guarantee.

s/
-- 
Twitter: @sfgreenwood
"TBA are particularly glib"
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