Mounting a USB Web Camera

Sun Feb 13 18:53:56 UTC 2005

On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 13:49 -0500, Chet Ranaweera wrote:

> Well, I have a USB webcam. It is made by Logitech. When I browse for
> hardware I can see a video capturing device listed. But it is marked
> as unknown and no drivers are listed also. I checked the logitech web
> site but they do not have drivers for linux. What are my options to
> get this thing to work??
Most Logitech seem to be based on Philips hardware.
Consult http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/ to see if your webcam
is supported by the pwc driver. Depending on your current kernel
you may have to download and install pwc-10.0.6a.tar.bz2
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