I am
guessing that this is your webcam:
Code:
Bus 007 Device 003: ID 05a9:2640 OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
So I offered the search term
05a9:2640 OmniVision to
http://www.google.co.uk/linux and there were quite a few results.
It looks as though it is supported: See
http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/ (Search on that page for your device ID:
05a9:2640), and it looks as though you'll need the
uvcvideo module loaded.
You have a little homework to do.
Then, maybe try
sudo modprobe uvcvideo to load the module, then start
cheese. Maybe something good will happen
, maybe not
.
If you start
cheese from the command line (by typing
cheese), you may see some helpful error messages that you can feed back into the search engine of your choice.
You may also see interesting and useful messages appended to the file /
var/log/messages as you go through each step. Linux (unlike some other operating systems) tends to give useful information when it is trying to make things work.
The
berlios.de page says that it works, you just need to find out
how.
Let us know how you get on.
