Hi,
I’m a total Newbie and I wondered how I go about installing a very basic HP webcam on Suse 10.3 64bit.
Thanks
g
What model is it? Exactly.
HP calls just calls it a “Basic Starter Webcam”. That’s all the driver (for XP) says, too. It’s only VGA.
g
There is a package called uvcvideo, I believe it’s listed as uvcvideo-default.
You can check if your webcam is supported here:
Linux UVC driver & tools
I saw some mention of it a few HP webcams there. Once the drivers are working it should work with programs like Skype.
Good luck.
I might seem a bit thick, but what do I do now? I installed the package, but can’t find a mentioning of a webcam anywhere.
I’ve been with Suse for barely 2 weeks, so please bear with me…
thanks
g
just fire up something like KDE-tv,xawtv,kopete ( if they’re installed ) then click on settings in either.Kopete would be best as it has a devices section,where you can see if the camera is working
Andy
There is also a how to guide here for web cams under opensuse:
HCL/Web Cameras - openSUSE
I prefer to test my webcam with the applications wxcam and camorama, but many users will test their web cam with kopete or amsn.
Packman is a good place to look for packaged applications for devices such as webcams:
PackMan :: Startseite
gilap wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I’m a total Newbie and I wondered how I go about installing a very
> basic HP webcam on Suse 10.3 64bit.
You have to find out first which driver it uses …
lsusb
or
hwinfo --usb
shows maybe more information.
With newer cams you might have luck and it’s an uvc device, just search for
uvc in the YaST software module and install it. For 10.3 you will find all
kind of webcam drivers here:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/drivers:/webcam/openSUSE_10.3/
For testing i recommend motv, for more fun cheese 
cu Martin
On 2008-06-11, gilap <gilap@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> I’m a total Newbie and I wondered how I go about installing a very
> basic HP webcam on Suse 10.3 64bit.
There is no such thing as a very basic webcam.
There is no common standard for webcams, unfortunately.
Start with identfying the model/make, using lsusb.
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Thanks everyone for you help. I swapped my “basic webcam” for a Creative Live Cam and with the aid of some online tutorials managed to get it up and running.
Thanks
g
Hi, I have a genius webcam and it runs with the gspcav driver, so u may want to install that and check if it works.
After installing with yast u can check if it works easily, install an app called “cheese” and see if the cam works.