Rick Stevens <rstevens <at> internap.com> writes: > Depends on what it is. Try "lsusb -vvxxx" and look for the phrase > "webcam" or "Webcam". We'd need the idVendor and idProduct bits from > that section. E.g. on my HP dv6565us: > > idVendor 0x04f2 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd > idProduct 0xb015 Thanks Rick In fact having the usb line in killed my sound in KDE - so it is currently unplugged - and since it is a production machine I will plug the usb back in at a later stage and probe more. This is not urgent but I wondered if others had already been down this road.