Webcam, Skype & LinuxMint (

[martinfromdublin]

Does anyone know how to get a webcam to work with Skype when running LinuxMint 9? The settings in Skype don't even list the webcam as being there

[JosePF]

Hello,
please, could you report?:
lsusb -v

Regards

[martinfromdublin]

Unfortunately, that read-out is to long for a terminal window so here's lsusb instead;

Server-PC martin # lsusb
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 045e:0040 Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse Optical
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0f30:0112 Jess Technology Co., Ltd
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0c45:600d Microdia TwinkleCam USB camera
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 04b4:6830 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. CY7C68300A EZ-USB AT2 USB 2.0 to ATA/ATAPI
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

[JosePF]

You can run:
lsusb -v > lsusb_output.txt
(this redirect output into lsusb_output.txt file)
and then report lsusb_output.txt file or copy and paste

and also report:
sudo lsmod

so we can see if drivers are loaded correctly.

[shtromm]

First try: Install the video4linux Kernel module.

[martinfromdublin]

Server-PC martin # sudo lsmod
Module Size Used by
nls_iso8859_1 3249 2
nls_cp437 4919 2
vfat 8901 2
fat 47767 1 vfat
dm_crypt 11331 0
aes_i586 7268 457
aes_generic 26863 1 aes_i586
binfmt_misc 6587 1
vboxnetadp 6390 0
vboxnetflt 12740 0
vboxdrv 168753 2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt
ipt_REJECT 1928 1
ipt_LOG 4542 5
xt_limit 1382 7
xt_tcpudp 2011 7
ipt_addrtype 1631 4
xt_state 1098 7
ip6table_filter 2343 1
ip6_tables 11227 1 ip6table_filter
nf_nat_irc 1124 0
nf_conntrack_irc 3332 1 nf_nat_irc
nf_nat_ftp 1836 0
nf_nat 15735 2 nf_nat_irc,nf_nat_ftp
nf_conntrack_ipv4 10672 9 nf_nat
nf_defrag_ipv4 1073 1 nf_conntrack_ipv4
nf_conntrack_ftp 5381 1 nf_nat_ftp
nf_conntrack 61583 7 xt_state,nf_nat_irc,nf_conntrack_irc,nf_nat_ftp,nf _nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack_ftp
iptable_filter 2271 1
ip_tables 9991 1 iptable_filter
x_tables 14299 8 ipt_REJECT,ipt_LOG,xt_limit,xt_tcpudp,ipt_addrtype ,xt_state,ip6_tables,ip_tables
tuner_simple 13577 1
tuner_types 14233 1 tuner_simple
snd_bt87x 9735 1
tuner 20412 1
snd_intel8x0 25588 2
tvaudio 24273 0
snd_seq_dummy 1338 0
snd_ac97_codec 100646 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 1002 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_oss 26726 0
snd_pcm_oss 35308 0
tda7432 3953 0
snd_seq_midi 4557 0
snd_mixer_oss 13746 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_rawmidi 19056 1 snd_seq_midi
msp3400 26782 0
snd_pcm 70662 4 snd_bt87x,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_midi_event 6003 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
sn9c102 137320 0
snd_seq 47263 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_mid i_event
bttv 111669 0
v4l2_common 15431 5 tuner,tvaudio,tda7432,msp3400,bttv
ir_common 38875 1 bttv
snd_timer 19098 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 5700 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi ,snd_seq
videobuf_dma_sg 10782 1 bttv
ppdev 5259 0
videodev 34361 7 tuner,tvaudio,tda7432,msp3400,sn9c102,bttv,v4l2_co mmon
v4l1_compat 13251 1 videodev
joydev 8708 0
videobuf_core 16356 2 bttv,videobuf_dma_sg
btcx_risc 3624 1 bttv
tveeprom 11102 1 bttv
snd 54148 17 snd_bt87x,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss, snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,snd_ seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
parport_pc 25962 1
soundcore 6620 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 7076 3 snd_bt87x,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
lp 7028 0
shpchp 28820 0
parport 32635 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
dm_raid45 81647 0
xor 15028 1 dm_raid45
fbcon 35102 71
tileblit 2031 1 fbcon
font 7557 1 fbcon
bitblit 4707 1 fbcon
softcursor 1189 1 bitblit
vga16fb 11385 0
vgastate 8961 1 vga16fb
usbhid 36110 0
hid 67032 1 usbhid
radeon 674135 3
ttm 49943 1 radeon
pata_hpt3x2n 4547 0
drm_kms_helper 29297 1 radeon
ums_cypress 1994 0
drm 162471 5 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
usb_storage 39425 2 ums_cypress
8139too 18545 0
pata_hpt37x 9747 1
intel_agp 24177 1
pata_hpt366 4636 0
floppy 53016 0
8139cp 16186 0
mii 4381 2 8139too,8139cp
i2c_algo_bit 5028 2 bttv,radeon
agpgart 31724 3 ttm,drm,intel_agp
Server-PC martin #

The other command unfortunately does nothing

[shtromm]

A quick, but a bit dirty, workaround: The installation of cheese, gnome cam-tool, should also install automatically all packages to access the cam.

sudo apt-get install cheese

[martinfromdublin]

Chesse uses the webcam but the picture is blurred & choppy, I think this is a driver-related issue as I also posted this issue in Mint's own forum and the users there said I would have to build a driver for the webcam. I was given a link but unfortunatley at this moment, the forums page for LinuxMint is down so I can't look at it.

[JosePF]

you could try another compatible driver: gspca
sudo modprobe -r sn9c102
sudo modprobe gspca_main

and test with cheese for example

Regards

[martinfromdublin]

Unfortunately, that has now stopped the webcam from being recognised by cheese at all. How do I revert to the previous driver?