Getting Skype webcam working

[Bart Silverstrim]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> 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.

I know I'm going to have someone correct me for doing it this way, but 
it is simply done out of habit. I get similar results unless I do 
something like

ls -al /dev |grep vid

-Bart