Installing webcam in openSUSE 11.0

swampdog2002 · 07-10-2008, 07:48 PM

I have a Micro Innovations IC50C Basic Webcam that I am attempting to set up in openSUSE 11.0. I found some information regarding setting this up in Ubuntu, but the instructions were somewhat vague. When I plugged in the webcam to a USB port on my laptop, the following message was reported when issuing the dmesg | less from a command prompt:

Code:

usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=093a, idProduct=2468
usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
usb 1-2: Product: CIF Single Chip     
usb 1-2: Manufacturer: Pixart Imaging Inc.

I'm not sure what to make of this, but it appears to have found something that could be construed for a webcam. Also, unless I need to enable support in the kernel, the kernel I am using is the default that was initially installed with openSUSE 11.0 (no modifications), so all necessary modules should already be available. Perhaps that video4linux is not, but again I am not privy to a whole lot when it comes to webcams, so any helpful suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

Guitarist88 · 07-10-2008, 09:19 PM

If you enter the repository manager, through YaST2 and choose to add a new repository from the community list, you should see a repository for all webcam related software.

Also check this out:
http://en.opensuse.org/Webcam
There are some one-click install links that should help.

swampdog2002 · 07-11-2008, 08:40 PM

Thanks, that did it for me. I didn't realize that it was so simple

. I was glad to see that my particular webcam was on the list of supported devices.