On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 7:19:16 pm Christopher Sawtell wrote: > Greets folks, > > I have a need to attach a web-cam to my ThinkPad. Any one got to work > under Linux? > I tried a Logitech Quickcam Connect (046d:08af - also called Quickcam Cool in some countries I think).
I have M8beta5 with the latest kernel (2.6.27-7) and the webcam seemed to be detected automatically but I could not get any sense from it. cat /dev/video0 gave output but camstream, cheese, kopete and skype do not give anything usable. Skype did show the camera as a video device but the test gave a greeny shaky fuzzy output with no discernible picture. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Then I spent more money on a Logitech Quickcam E 3500 (046d:09a4). I am very happy now. This webcam was plug and play with my setup. (Although it does not seem to do video capture in cheese in Skype it works fine - I did not have to do anything but plug it in and test it) It uses the uvcvideomodule which is in kernel 2.6.27-7. HTH Rob
