Video Camera

[Rob]

"lsusb" gives me the following:

"Bus 004 Device 004: ID 046d:08b5 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Sphere"

So my system sees the camera under Ubuntu 10.10 but that web page
doesn't see it  :(

I'll keep trying with some of your other suggestions.

Tks.

RobF
On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 22:48 +0200, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 October 2010, Rob wrote:
> > Greetings all,
> >
> > Does anyone know how or if it is possible to get a Logitech QuickCam
> > working under Ubuntu 10.10?  I have QuickCam 8.3.0 software for Windows
> > but not aware of how to get it working in Linux.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any assistance.
> >
> > Regards,
> > RobF
> 
> First you can try just pluging it in and see what happens.
> 
> Next thing is to open a terminal and type: "lsusb" (without the quotes)
> 
> Look for the output for your device. For example on my laptop it says:
> 
> Bus 002  Device 003: ID 064e:e201  Suyin Corp. Lenovo Intergrated Webcam
> 
> The ID code (here 064e:e201) may help you find more information how to access 
> your webcam. 064e is the code for Suyin corp., e201 would be the webcam type.
> 
> Looking here:
> http://www.iowa-assessors.org/htdocs/Assessors_of_Iowa/Ringgold/a.php?r=%2Fvar%2Flib%2Fmisc%2Fusb.ids
> 
> Logitech's ID should be 046d, with lots of types of Quickcam ( more than 50!)
> 
> However it's not all the story, as actually my "Suyin" webcam happens to work 
> very well with the UVC driver....
> 
> As far as I know there is no way to make a Windows driver work under Linux 
> (except some modem/wifi drivers with ndiswrapper). And from my experience 
> Webcams don't work well in emulators either.
> 
> Today more webcams are UVC compatible, and this includes some of Logitech's. 
> So you might just install guvcview and look if it works. If not, I would 
> suggest buying an UVC compatible webcam as it should work in any of Windows, 
> Mac and Linux OS. Look here: http://www.uvccompatiblewebcams.com/
> 
> Thierry
> 
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