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    quickcam im does not work

    Something really drives me crazy here. I have a Logitech quickcam im installed which in the amsn video and audio settings works pretty well.

    However, it just does not with amsn, cheese and skype - even the green LED indicates that it works.

    I have been searching for help for days here but cannot find anything which drives me crazy. I need that cam for video conferencing and those guys all use Skype

    Here are some details:

    Kernel: 2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586
    idVendor 0x046d Logitech, Inc.
    idProduct 0x08a0 QuickCam IM


    this and similar things won't work:
    env LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype



    Please be nice to me, you are talking to a real computer idiot ...

    Thanks
    Last edited by dib; 13th July 2009 at 07:49 AM.

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    I have the same problem. Let me know if you find a solution.
    It work fine with Fedora9 and Fedora10

    Logitech Quickcam pro 40000
    Fedora11

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    Smile quickcam pro for notebooks not working - workaround

    This is for FC11. I'm using LiveCD/USB and after a lot of searching and not wanting to build a new kernel, I finally figured out that loading and unloading the uvcvideo driver works in my case. The driver loads without the nasty little init error I used to get most of the time when I plugged in the cam.

    modprobe -r uvcvideo
    modprobe ucvvideo

    From what I've ready, the init error is a hardware timing problem. There are a few posts out there that get close, but none has a workaround for the supposed usb timing problem, except for the kernel reset mods.

    My cam is a quickcam pro for notebooks, vintage 2006/2007. ID 046d:08c3

    Hope this helps someone. I appreciate all the help I get from the forums.

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    Smile quickcam pro

    Oh yes, and I have found that the v4l preload if required not only for skype, but firefox flash too.
    LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype
    LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so firefox

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