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elflord

Member

From: France

Registered: 2008-11-09

Posts: 51

How cian I use my webcam ?

Hi all

i have really an old usb webcam called V-Gear
Im not sure there is still drivers for it
when i plug it in
i get this in the dmesg

usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

other than this the "Cheese" program told me it couldnt find any webcam

what other command can i use to detect or find more information about it ?
how should i go about to drive it up ?

thanks

SiC

Member

From: Liverpool, England

Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 430

Re: How cian I use my webcam ?

v gear is the manufacturer, there should be a model somewhere with that, a quick google should let you know what driver you need.

Other than that you could check to see what windows detects it as and check the driver from there.

Inxsible

Forum Fellow

From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: How cian I use my webcam ?

connect the cam and then do a

lsusb

and it will tell you the device Id and the make. Then you can follow the wiki guide to see if any of the drivers apply to your make and model.

Mine(Creative) doesn't work even after trying out 2 different drivers, so its gonna be iffy. I was trying it out in Skype, but it seems Skype doesn't support V4L2 yet, so I am not sure if its Skype or the webcam itself giving me problems.

Last edited by Inxsible (2009-03-02 20:01:30)

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