[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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