webcam won't?

[Matthew Gillen]

On 02/05/2010 11:40 AM, R. Luoma wrote:
> I am trying to get  Logitech webcam 9000
> to capture video under linux (ubuntu 9.04)
> 
> The usb driver does recognize the camera as a video source,
> but I cannot get any programs to work with the camera.
> 
> Has anyone on this list successfully used
> a webcam with linux?
> 
> If so, how did you get it to work (or was
> it just plug-in and play?)?

I have several of that same model, and it's pretty plug-n-play on Fedora.

An easy way to test it is to run this:
  mplayer tv://

Or cheese, or skype.  Those are the one's I've tried, and I haven't had to
do anything to configure it.

HTH,
Matt