Re: Webcam with FC6

Keith, I have, I believe, the same camera. You need to install the
SPCA driver for it -- this is not part of the mainline kernel.  The
following worked for me:


wget http://drpixel.tuxfamily.org/fedora/drpixel-release-1-1.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh drpixel-release-1-1.noarch.rpm
yum install --enablerepo=drpixel kmod-gspca

in aMSN, if you use a NAT/router, you need to open ports 6890-6900 for
the camera to work.  I believe I also had to do this in the fedora
firewall.

Mike

I have read that the Logitech Quickcam Chat web cam works 'out of the
box' with Linux. So I have bought one. Unfortunately, I can't get it
to work in Linux, let alone 'out of the box'! It works extremely well
with XP and Windows Live Messenger.

The camera active light is on, but no Linux programs appear to be able
to find it. The camera is plugged into a USB socket on the back of
the computer.

[snip]

Please, what should I try next to get the webcam to work?

Any advice will be *very* gratefully received.

Many thanks

Keith