you guys caught a quick glimpse of a post I am working on accidentally. I hit publish instead of saving it as a draft. sorry about that.
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 046d:09c1 Logitech, Inc.
Webcam help needed
Howdy folks. Today I purchased a Logitech QuickCam Deluxe for Notebooks. Not my best purchase by any means, but something my daughter, who lives in D.C., wanted me to get one so we can video talk.
I have been trying here, and reading how-to after how-to on getting a QuickCam to work. None of them have been successful for me. So far I have tried Camorama and it complains about not being able to locate/use /dev/video0. /dev/video0 is there, but Camorama doesn’t like it. I have tried Xawtv and still no success. The system (Kubuntu Gutsy) sees the camera and doesn’t report any errors, but it just will not work. Here is some of the output I have gotten from the typical locations:
lsusb
dmesg
[ 1818.228000] usb 5-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 [ 1818.608000] usb 5-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 1818.876000] Linux video capture interface: v2.00 [ 1818.888000] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio [ 1818.956000] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device <unnamed> (046d:09c1) [ 1818.976000] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo [ 1818.976000] USB Video Class driver (v0.1.0)
lsmod
uvcvideo 42884 0 videodev 29312 1 uvcvideo v4l1_compat 15364 2 uvcvideo,videodev v4l2_common 18432 2 uvcvideo,videodev snd_usb_audio 81024 0 snd_usb_lib 17920 1 snd_usb_audio
If you have any ideas, a great tutorial somewhere, or know how I can get it to work, I would greatly appreciate your assistance. Thank you!
Oh Crap!
You’ve got to be kidding me: During my first session, the PS/2 mouse I’m using locked up, and I intuitively went for the Ctrl-Alt-Delete smartbomb. Nothing. Whatever your feelings about Task Manager, asking Windows users to do without an “oh crap” screen at Ctrl-Alt-Delete is unreasonable. That’s about as fundamental a comfort blanket as most of us have, and certainly a fair concession if the Linux community expects Microsoft users to switch.
Absolutely hilarious. I found this quote in this great review of a first time user of Ubuntu, and he says he is a non-techy. He installed Ubuntu on an older Compaq desktop, which admittedly I have had similar issues as he states with almost the same exact computer, however it isn’t an Ubuntu thing, because if I remember I tried SuSE back in the days as well as Debian and Slackware with the one I had. Anyways, he gives it a fair shake, and even though he had some minor quirks here and there, he seemed to fix them and get the system working. The lack of a Ctrl+Alt+Del, or a “Oh Crap” way out of a crash, yielded the opening comment, which I think was great.
