How to get USB webcam working on my ASUS Netbook under 10.04?

Question

I have a camera that I have working under 12.04. Cheese and VLC recognize it and use it without a problem. But 12.04 is a pain on a netbook and I love my netbooks.

I have a netbook running 10.04 NBR, and I can't get anywhere with the camera. Neither Cheese nor VLC recognize it.

A device gets listed in lsusb when I connect the camera, but it isn't described as a camera

(Bus 001 Device 033: ID 04fc:1528 Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd ).

The device id is not listed on the UVC pages or the Ov51x page. (The rastageeks pages have been hacked and are not usable).

How do I go about getting this camera to work under 10.04?

Answer 1

I cannot understand your question, but I can tell you that when you plug a usb device and it does not work as expected, you should look the log file.

The simplest way to do it is to is to unplug device, plug device and type from a Terminal:

root@ubuntu:/# dmesg

Otherwise you can type:

root@ubuntu:/# tail /var/log/kern.log

To see all the log lines at your sbd drive just tipe:

root@ubuntu:/# dmesg | grep -i sdb