Getting Skype webcam working SOLVED

[Gerald Dachs]

Am Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:55:30 -0500
schrieb Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com>:

> Karl Larsen wrote:
> >     Well FEDEX arrived with my new referbished webcam And I knew it
> > was going to be good. When I plugged it in a light in the webcam
> > came on. On Skype I selected Options - Video Devices and where it
> > says Select webcam it reads  (/dev/video0).
> > When I press the test in the black square it shows the image from
> > the webcam.
> > 
> >     So to get a wbcam to work in Ubuntu you must have the right
> > webcam and the one above is right. It cost $20.00
> > 
> >     All of you who thought you should be able to get the other
> > webcam I have working are wrong.
> 
> Okay.  Everyone on the list now knows that if it isn't something
> listed on the known-good-out-of-box list, get something else that is
> and all difficulties will be gone.
> 
> Damn.  Guess we don't even NEED this list.  Karl just solved all of
> our problems in perpetuity.

:)

The problem is only that his information are not very useful.
At least the first ten pages in google searching for "Logitech QuickCam
EC" let not show up a single shop where you can buy one. Either it
is too old, or it sold by another name.

Gerald