Getting Skype webcam working

[Karl Larsen]

Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>>     
>>> Colin Brace wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> On Feb 7, 2008 6:59 PM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> Actually, we don't have enough information yet to know if that's true.
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> Well, I don't see you rolling up your sleeves to further investigate
>>>> the problem; it is easy enough to spout platitudes.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Look here, noob.  I've been helping on this list since it was born, so don't
>>> talk about things of which you know nothing.  I've also spent considerable
>>> time, recently, helping someone with a webcam - and a quick google
>>> of "ubuntu webcam" should make it clear to anybody that the very first
>>> thing we need to know is the ID from lsusb.  Of course, if you have that,
>>> you can probably tell via google whether or not it will work with Linux.
>>>   
>>>       
>>     Before this gets really nasty I have a good webcam coming and the 
>> one I have that works just fine on WindowsXT gives you this on Linux:
>>
>> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:08f6 Logitech, Inc.
>> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 
>>
>> It appears that all the device sends is the company name. I hope the one 
>> I am buying will send more to Linux.
>>     
>
> My Logitech only sends the company name, too, but it works rather well 
> with Linux (as long as the /dev entry has access permission set so I can 
> get to it).
>
> You may need to google the device ID to see what comes up.  I can't 
> really google it at the moment for you to see what it says.
>
>   
    As root I can look for /dev/video* and I see nothing with my webcam 
plugged in. Here is what I did:

root at karl-desktop:~# ls -al /dev/vid*
ls: /dev/vid*: No such file or directory
root at karl-desktop:~#
So it is not working period.

Karl


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