Getting Skype webcam working
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Fri Feb 8 21:14:36 UTC 2008
Derek Broughton wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> No, that's all Linux needs: 046d:08f6
>
>> As for Google lists, they are the single most confusing things I
>> have looked at. They are VERY poor. It told me nothing.
>>
>
> It's nothing to do with google "lists" - I'm just suggesting all you need to
> do is google for "046d:08f6". A quick glance shows that other people have
> problems with the same device and the very first link shows two solutions
> (one for Slackware, one for Gentoo) - so it should be no harder to make it
> work under Ubuntu.
>
I have d/l the tarball that is supposed to make a kernel module that
will work. Let me work with the tarball and see if it is possible to put
this module in Ubuntu. I must say that making a new module and getting
it into the current kernel is tricky business and to be honest I have no
idea how to do it.
Karl
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