Lego Studios webcam and Ubuntu?

[phoenix23]

I found an old Lego Studios webcam and was wondering if anyone's been able to get it working on Ubuntu?

Thanks

[Transistor23]

I'm trying to get the Lego Studios webcam to work under Linux. It seems to be the same as the Lego Mindstorms vision command webcam / Logitech QuickCam Web.

There is a read-only thread on the forums about this webcam: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ht=lego+webcam

Despite the discussion in that thread, they never got the webcam to work.

Does anyone have any idea as to how to get this webcam working?

[dileepdinesh]

may be this might help
did you try cheese,,,
sudo apt-get install cheese
mine is not logitech webcam,but cheese identified the cam easily

[Transistor23]

may be this might help
did you try cheese,,,
sudo apt-get install cheese
mine is not logitech webcam,but cheese identified the cam easily

The camera doesn't work with Cheese - it says "No camera found!".

[SunnyRabbiera]

thus is probably going to happen with cheapo/ no name brands, its no fault of linux.
Buy professional hardware with good linux track records, its like owning a mac in this respect.

[markbuntu]

I always use Ekiga to test webcams, you can try different drivers like v4l and v4l2 and see if they can autodetect the cam before trying something more strenuous.

[stevefed5291]

I know I'm bumping an old thread, but if anyone stumbles across this like I did, the cam works out of the box in Lucid.