so the webcam needs a gspca driver; and gspca drivers were added to the 2.6.27 kernel, but alas that does not mean that things work;
the webcam shows up as Qtec 170 0x093a 0x2460 Qtec Webcam100 Pac207 Pac207 Yes gbrg spca5xx ****
on this website
http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html
some suggest downloading the latest drivers from
v4l-dvb: Summary
download the bz2 file: if you need help on this, sing out ..
If you read here
HCL/Web Cameras - openSUSE
it is the OpenSuse advice on webcams: you have the gspca type:
you can see they talk about
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However, some applications still don't work very well together with the new drivers,
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a workaround is to preload a libv4l-compat library:
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so for kopete you would type
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LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so kopete
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so there is a bit of homework for you;
so: Plan A is to try to get existing webcam working; when you have pulled out most of your hair, you can go to:
Plan B: is buy a new UVC one, as they are cheap, and SHOULD work
UVC Webcams - openSUSE