[Tfug] webcam in debian?

Jeff Breadner jeff at breadner.ca
Thu Sep 25 10:27:49 MST 2008


eric christian wrote:
> my son gave me a sepia spa-400 cam and installed it with AIM in that 
> other OS in order to webcam his uncle who uses skype in Seattle. It 
> works, but i, of course, want it in Debian-Etch. I installed the beta 
> deb AIM but, as usual, a lib was missing here.
> Is there another messenger other than AIM for debian? Drivers for Sepia?
> Eric
>   
Plug in the camera, and get the device ID from 'lsusb'.  Compare that 
against the list at http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/

I got my Logitech web camera working with Skype (on kubuntu 8.04) using UVC.

cheers
  Jeff Breadner





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