So I've browsed the forums on how to make the Logitech Quickcam Messenger webcam work. The problem I am running into is that the one and only website that seems to have the patch is:

http://kuhrti.de/files/qc_2.6.28_patch.txt

This website seems to be defunct. So does anyone have this patchfile or know where I can find it? Or some other option or work around?

Hello,

So far, I had no luck trying to track that file down for you. Can you give me a link to the site you are originally following instructions on? Thanks!

Josh

Thanks for responding Josh. Here is the page I was working off of:

https://www.vitki.net/book/page/logi...04-using-skype

Actually I did find another page which had some suggestions that ended up working for me:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1477349

I did the lines that meho_r suggested:

sudo mv /usr/bin/skype /usr/bin/skype.real

sudo gedit /usr/bin/skype

But instead of going with meho_r's code in the third step, I took the first 2 lines from energybeing's code:

#!/bin/bash
export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1

Since enerybeing's third line of code didn't point to lib32, I went back and used meho_r's original line:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /usr/bin/skype.real "$@"

I then did meho_r's fourth step:

sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/skype

At this point I chose to restart the computer, started Skype, went to test video and it came right up. My view picture of myself looked fine, but my brother said I looked grainy on his end. I guess that is another issue that might be tweakable, but at least for now the video works in Skype. Thanks for responding and hopefully this might help others having the same problem.

Ubuntu 10.10 - the Maverick Meerkat

Ahh ok cool. As far as being grainy, you could most likely tweak the settings of v4l. Since you are running ubuntu, you should have either gtk-v4l or v4l2ucp on your system. If not, you should just be able to install one or both via your package manager.

Cheers,

Josh