Tip: Getting Your Webcam To Work In Ubuntu

  2008-11-05 22:30:01
I have an old noname cheapo webcam, that I dusted out of my junk (why? More on that in a post coming soon). I hoped that it would work in my Ubuntu setup out of the box like most of my other hardware. I connected it to my laptop's usb port. dmesg gave the following output: 
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