NO video picture with Skype (Beta) & Logitech QuickCam Communicate S

[Thomas Kaiser]

SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote:
> 
> 
> Schöne Grüsse ins Ländle, Thomas ! ;-)

Au as Grüssli i d'Schwiiz, svobi ;-)

> The ll or li or il made me curios and on you website I see FL 
> our eastern neighbor !! ;-))
> Been in your village quite often for business and to visit 
> Heidegger's and the famous Alpina's. ;-D

Heidegger's are located in the same town I life in and not so far away from my 
place :-)

>  
> Thank you for the hint how to install camorama:
> With Synaptic it didn't work !
> With your "sudo command" I got it and noticed an interesting comment, 
> something like re-installing a deselected (!?) package !!?? ;-|

That's normal, during the initial install of the system not all (available) 
packages are installed, so deselected.

> 
> I really do not know having it UN-installed earlier !!!

You didn't it was just NOT installed by the base system -> Ubuntu install CD.

> 
> The cheaper Logitech QuickCam Communicate STX works ...
> ... the displayed picture indeed is very very poor, 
> it's very dark and the colors are far from authentic ! ;-|

The cam is working. Your problem is Skype. I should install Skype to see how my 
webcams work with skype ;-)

> 
> The more expensive Logitech Quickcam Notebook for Pro 
> refuses to work. ;-(

Can you post the USB ID of this cam. The command is "lsmod" in a terminal.
And for the "cheaper" cam, too (I'm lazy to look through all mails to find it).

> 
> Just downloaded gspca and would love some more info and/or 
> instruction how to patch and use it !?

Nothing to patch!
First of all, you have to check if you really need the newest gspca version!
Check http://mxhaard.free.fr/news.html, the version of gspca included in Ubuntu 
Gutsy is 01.00.12. Check all the newer version and see if there was a change for 
your cam. If not, you are fine with the Ubuntu version of gspca.

When you still want to compile the newest gspca version, just drop a mail to 
this list or private to me.

> 
> Your "Rat und Tat" is very appreciated, TIA !

I think I did :-)

> 
> Cheers, svobi
> 
> 

Thomas


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