Web cam and Google video chat

[henry cow]

I have a WinBook clip-on web cam for my laptop. It works great for video chats with my family in gmail when running under Windows.

When I boot into Ubuntu, the LED blinks on, indicating that the device has powered up, but gmail/Google Chat does not seem to recognize it and will not connect.

Is this a Linux issue with hardware, or a Google issue in not supporting non-Windows chat?

thanks

[heypete]

The latter. According to http://www.google.com/chat/video Google Video Chat doesn't support Linux yet. Presumably they'll support it in the future.

[mortrca]

Google now (as of today) provides Linux support for their voice and video chat features.