Installing & running a Logitech web-cam

WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot · 06-04-2006, 02:59 AM

g'day,
been trying for a while to get the logitech usb quick-cam drivers installed and running. i tried from source but it needed something called xawtv which i dont think installs on the fedora distros of today and the 2nd was through certain rpms at http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...kage_id=177027 but after installing the latest FC5 drivers i still cant get any output from the webcam in my mesenger ( mercury ). mercury says it is scanning for webcams and the output is

Quote:

Looking for video capture devices...
- Finished detecting V4LAuto classes.
Starting detected classes... (This might take some time)
- Done.

There are no video capture devices present.

i am unsure on how to continue. any help would be appreciated.

wejp · 06-04-2006, 03:24 AM

Are you sure your QuickCam is supported by the driver? There are only a few QuickCams which actually work under Linux.

ghatamos · 06-04-2006, 08:51 AM

I have a Logitech Pro 3000 and what i did was get the pwc driver and used that as my webcam driver.

Afterwards i was able to use it using gnomemeeting in my fc2

maybe if you try the same path you can get it to work

Hangdog42 · 06-04-2006, 10:42 AM

Make sure you get the pwc driver from here and don't try to use the one in the kernel. It doesn't work with most webcams.

WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot · 06-05-2006, 07:40 PM

well, i know it is a logitech quickcam because that is what the windows based drivers say it is.

WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot · 06-07-2006, 02:40 PM

any ideas anyone ?

Hangdog42 · 06-07-2006, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot

any ideas anyone ?

As I said in my previous posts, the pwc drivers work decently, at least with the two Logitech web cams I've got. Did you try that driver?

paragn · 06-27-2006, 01:53 AM

whats the usb ids of your webcam?
give /sbin/lsusb output