Re: Getting Skype webcam working

From: Derek Broughton <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:59:04 -0400

Bart Silverstrim wrote:

Colin Brace wrote:

Unplug the webcam. Run $ dmesg | tail. Plug in the webcam. Run $ dmesg
again. What is the output?

If dmesg indicates only a new USB device and nothing more, then your
webcam isn't recognized by any of the standard kernel modules.

My webcam (also a Logitech) creates a device at /dev/video0 when it's
plugged in, but the default permissions only allow Root to access it. I
usually just quickly run sudo chmod 777 /dev/video0 so my normal user

It's so much easier to set group ownership in udev, set permissions to 660,
and add yourself to the group :-)
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derek

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