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ASUS netbook--third-party UVC webcam

I have one of the "Target" ASUS eeePC 900 Linux netbooks, lacking a built-in webcam. On recommendations from an ASUS forum, I acquired a third-party USB webcam that was UVC-compliant (USB Video Class). This UVC compliance was supposed to make the webcam plug-and-play with Linux, but none of the onboard applications, including Skype, detect it. The OS is eeePC 1.6.1.2-a, a dialect of Xandros (kernel version 2.6.21.4). The driver luvcview is there, but I don't know how to configure it. There are lots of UVC, video and V4L files on the hard drive, but I don't know what they do. Any ideas?

http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/

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Linux 2.6.26 and newer includes the Linux UVC driver natively.

There really shouldn't be anything to configure,.

What I would start with is:

unplug the camera.
open a terminal
tail -f /var/log/messages
Plug in the camera and watch the scrolling log messages as it detects the camera
Did it properly detect and identify the camera ?
Did it load the uvcvideo module when you plugged in the camera ? if not load it manually
modprobe uvcvideo
Test camera using cheese or a similar application.