Logitech Quickcam on Slackware 12.2
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From: Tuxedo on 8 Jan 2010 01:52 Jim Diamond wrote: [...] > Logitech has the annoying habit of naming a lot of different webcams > with very similar names. Your guess at the name in your original > message is (consequently) practically worthless. If you want to get > some help on this, the first thing you should do is run > lsusb > with the web cam plugged in at look for the line like > Bus 004 Device 002: ID 046d:08b1 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Notebook Pro > The USB ID is the important info, in this case 046d:08b1. > That camera, as well as > Bus 002 Device 003: ID 046d:0991 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Pro for Notebooks > both work perfectly under Slackware 12.2 and 13.0. > > If you have one of those, you must have screwed something up > somewhere. Possibly the hardware itself :-( (I can't recall whether > you said it (still) works under another OS or not.) > > Given the USB ID, try doing a web search using that ID and the word > "Linux" and you might find a web page telling about whether that > particular web cam works under Linux or not. My system doesn't have the command 'lsusb' but my USB cam device appears to have the ID "USB Camera (046d:08d8)" as reported by the CamStream application. The hardware works fine in Windows on the same machine. Will test another cam. Tuxedo
From: Henrik Carlqvist on 8 Jan 2010 02:17 Tuxedo <tuxedo(a)mailinator.com> wrote: > My system doesn't have the command 'lsusb' If you did a complete Slackware installation you should have gotten lsusb from the usbutils package. However as lsusb resides in /sbin you don't have it in your path as a normal user. Some programs in /sbin are also useful for non-root users and can be run by giving the complete path like /sbin/ifconfig. When it comes to lsusb it seems to be rather useful also for a normal user, but I have seen at least one case were lsusb gives more information to the root user than to normal users. regards Henrik -- The address in the header is only to prevent spam. My real address is: hc3(at)poolhem.se Examples of addresses which go to spammers: root(a)localhost postmaster(a)localhost
From: Tuxedo on 8 Jan 2010 10:20 Henrik Carlqvist wrote: > Tuxedo <tuxedo(a)mailinator.com> wrote: > > My system doesn't have the command 'lsusb' > > If you did a complete Slackware installation you should have gotten lsusb > from the usbutils package. However as lsusb resides in /sbin you don't > have it in your path as a normal user. > > Some programs in /sbin are also useful for non-root users and can be run > by giving the complete path like /sbin/ifconfig. When it comes to lsusb it > seems to be rather useful also for a normal user, but I have seen at least > one case were lsusb gives more information to the root user than to normal > users. I'm new to Slackware so this is helpful to know. I do indeed have 'lsusb' in sbin and it reports amongst other things that "Bus 002 Device 003: ID 046d:08d8 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam for Notebook Deluxe" is plugged in. Thanks, Tuxedo
From: Jim Diamond on 8 Jan 2010 10:42 On 2010-01-08 at 02:52 AST, Tuxedo <tuxedo(a)mailinator.com> wrote: > Jim Diamond wrote: > > [...] > >> Logitech has the annoying habit of naming a lot of different webcams >> with very similar names. Your guess at the name in your original >> message is (consequently) practically worthless. If you want to get >> some help on this, the first thing you should do is run >> lsusb >> with the web cam plugged in at look for the line like >> Bus 004 Device 002: ID 046d:08b1 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Notebook Pro >> The USB ID is the important info, in this case 046d:08b1. >> That camera, as well as >> Bus 002 Device 003: ID 046d:0991 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Pro for Notebooks >> both work perfectly under Slackware 12.2 and 13.0. >> >> If you have one of those, you must have screwed something up >> somewhere. Possibly the hardware itself :-( (I can't recall whether >> you said it (still) works under another OS or not.) >> >> Given the USB ID, try doing a web search using that ID and the word >> "Linux" and you might find a web page telling about whether that >> particular web cam works under Linux or not. > > My system doesn't have the command 'lsusb' I'll bet you are wrong about that. > but my USB cam device appears to have the ID "USB Camera > (046d:08d8)" as reported by the CamStream application. The hardware > works fine in Windows on the same machine. > > Will test another cam. That might be your best approach. However, a quick web search (as I suggested above) reveals a number of web pages that indicates that camera works under Linux if you use the right driver. However, if you aren't familiar with the process of installing new drivers "by hand", getting another web cam that works "out of the box" may be quickest for you. Jim
From: Tuxedo on 8 Jan 2010 11:49
Jim Diamond wrote: [...] > > Will test another cam. > > That might be your best approach. However, a quick web search (as I > suggested above) reveals a number of web pages that indicates that > camera works under Linux if you use the right driver. However, if you > aren't familiar with the process of installing new drivers "by hand", > getting another web cam that works "out of the box" may be quickest > for you. > > Jim I remember running the very same cam on an older Linux distro once on different hardware so it definitely can work. But that was a system which had various video extras installed and I can't remember which packages they were. I guess I can install a new driver by hand, just knowing which one and finding one that actually works for the particular Slackware compilation can be the complicated part... No where near as convenient as 'installpkg some-ready-package.tgz'. The cam has a built-in microphone and at least that works out of the box. Anyway, time to shop for a new cam :-) Tuxedo |