I have found that webcams sometimes work and sometimes don't. You want to find something that will work with Skype, Cheese and SANE (to name just a few apps). SANE, for instance, is very fussy and only works (AFAIK) 'out of the box' with UVC (USB video class) compliant webcams. None of the 3 webcams that I have (a Logitech, a Labtech, which is a Logitech by another name, and a Tesco Value webcam) use this standard so I cannot import an image into GIMP, which uses SANE.
To make sure whether your web is UCV compliant, or not, you need the 8 character hexadecimal Device ID (ffff:ffff) where the first 4 chars are the manufacturer code and the last 4 are the device code. The problem is that this code is rarely quoted on the packaging so you won't know until you get it home, plug it in and run lsusb, exactly what it is. I have seen reports that two Logitechs with the same model number on the packaging can have different device codes, one compliant and the other not. Some USB webcams, I am told, can be enabled with other device drivers, which are not installed as standard by Ubuntu (although the sources are available for the main ones in Synaptic - probably Multiverse). Go to http://www.quickcamteam.net/devices to see the status quo for Logitech webcams and http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/ for more on UVC. Tony On 23 May 2009 at 12:56, Simon Wears wrote: > I got myself a Logitech Quickcam S7500, works great for me straight out the > box. Clips onto my flat screen monitor, same with laptop. Can be a bit > tricky getting it to work with aMSN, but *apparently* works great with > Skype. Haven't tried it myself, as I don't use Skype. > > A list of supported webcams is here though: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsMultimediaWebCameras > > 2009/5/22 Tony Arnold <[email protected]> > > > Dave, > > > > Dave Morley wrote: > > > On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 16:02 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote: > > >> Can anyone recommend/suggest a webcam that can be clipped to the top of > > >> my laptop that will work out of the box on Jaunty? I'd want to use it > > >> with Skype. > > > > > > Go to Asda and buy there cheap tat one. It's not the greatest in the > > > world but it works fine for skype :) Anything else might be pushing it. > > > > Thanks for the pointer. I'd never think to go to ASDA for an item like > > this! I'll give it a try. > > > > Regards, > > Tony. > > -- > > Tony Arnold, Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 > > Head of IT Security, Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 > > University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 > > Manchester M13 9PL. Email: [email protected] > > > > -- > > [email protected] > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > > > > > -- > Simon Wears > [email protected] > http://MunkyJunky.com | http://Twitter.com/MunkyJunky > MunkyJunky on irc.freenode.net > -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
