Fw: NEED HELP WITH MY WEBCAM

[Derek Broughton]

Please don't shout (ie, all caps in the subject).  People will tend to
ignore you.

ike wrote:
> 
> I cant get the built-in webcam that came with my notebook - Lenovo 3000
> N100. it works perfectly on my windows vista partition but not on my
> ubuntu partition. can anyone help assist me on how to get it working. the
> webcam information I got from the windows device manager are listed below.
> 
> I have attached a copy of the .ini file from windows.

which was surprisingly useful.
 
> hardware ids
> USB\VID_0C45&PID_624F

OK, that's a microdia:
http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/04/27/microdia-0c45624f-webcam-on-linux/

gives you one solution (but not ubuntu based).  Just google for "0c45:624f"
and you may find even better ones.
-- 
derek