Re: [Ekiga-list] Logitech cameras

[Bret Busby <bret busby net>]

On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:

> > As I have previously said in a posting, I have a Logitech Communicate STX,
> > which appears to work without any (major) problems, on my laptop running
> > Ubuntu 8.04 and Ekiga.

<snip>

> Bret,
>
>  What kernel are you running?

2.6.24-24-generic #1 SMP Tue Aug 18 17:04:53 UTC2009 i686
OS: Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS

> What video-related modules are loaded? And which version are those?

Can you give me a simple command to display that information?

Sorry to sound so ignorant, but in looking in Synaptic, I could not find 
any webcam-specific packages installed, apparently the only applicable 
packages appeared to be Ekiga, and Skype.

I tried installing and running cheese, to see whether that would capture 
videoclips, after reading the above message and searching for packages, 
but cheese displays only a test pattern, and no input from the webcam.


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