Re: [tlug] Webcam Recommendations

["Greg Thomson " <gregt@example.com>]

In reply to myself and for the achieves.

I finished up getting a Lgoicool Qcam Communicate STX this is the Japanese  
version of the Logitech QuickCam Communicate STX.
They are one and the same. I'm pleased to report that installation was a  
non-issue under Kubuntu Feisty Fawn. "It Just Works"
Flawlessly!! No drivers to compile and install - nothing!!

I had read a community doc [1] on the ubuntu site that suggested camorama  
as a "good little app" to test the webcam on.
The picture is clear enough but the colour terrible. It appeared the red  
and blue signals have been swapped. Adding the colour correction filter  
fixed this. The image in the config dialog of Kopete was good from the  
start.


For completeness here is the relevant output from dmesg:
[ 1821.872282] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and  
address 2
[ 1822.068142] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 1824.878121] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[ 1825.057491] ubuntu/media/gspcav1/gspca_core.c: USB SPCA5XX camera  
found.(ZC3XX)
[ 1826.751816] usbcore: registered new interface driver gspca
[ 1826.751886] ubuntu/media/gspcav1/gspca_core.c: gspca driver 01.00.12  
registered
[ 1827.036399] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio


[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Webcam