Comments on: Logitech Quickcam Messenger in Linux

By: schumifer

schumifer — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:55:45 +0000

i am using 2.6.29.2 and set the kernel option for logitech quickcam messenger support to native. I installed camorama but i only get a messed up static pic of noise.
kubuntu edgy.
Any help?

By: Nlogax

Nlogax — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:03:42 +0000

This webcam is now supported directly from within the Linux 2.6.18 kernel source tree. All distros with 2.6.18 and higher kernel versions should support this camera out of the box.

By: Rune B

Rune B — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 13:09:23 +0000

I had to struggle to get this working on Breezy but after doing the same procedure a couple of time it suddenly worked. Also, while running the script it always told me it could not identify my camera but I just continued and now it works.

By: Maciek

Maciek — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 13:46:18 +0000

Graham Cranston: you can just ignore that warning and go on. All will work flawlessly anyway (at least it has worked here :+)

By: Ashley Hooper

Ashley Hooper — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 23:31:09 +0000

Re my previous comment, I should mention that I’d also installed the linux-686 kernel and had booted into it.

#uname -a
Linux abdul4 2.6.15-8-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Dec 13 03:38:39 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

And I have to say that Dapper looks fantastic and seems much faster than Breezy (on my P3-550/192MB RAM PC). I’ve had only a few very minor problems.

By: Ashley Hooper

Ashley Hooper — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 23:28:06 +0000

I’ve just compiled on a fresh install of Ubuntu 6.04 (Dapper Drake) flight 2, which is the 2nd alpha release.

From a fresh install of Dapper, all I had to do was:

#sudo apt-get install build-essential
#sudo apt-get install linux-headers-686

Then I changed directory to where I’d unpacked the source and it was go.

#sudo make install

By: Graham Cranston

Graham Cranston — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 04:29:39 +0000

I keep getting the error that no compatible cameras were found, which is ridiculous because the chipset under lsmod (which can be run as a normal user) exaclty matches that in the _README_MESSENGER file. I don’t have a device /dev/video0 and am wondering if this is part of the problem.

By: luca

luca — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 15:54:11 +0000

GREAT.
Under Ubuntu 2.6.12-10-686 but I’ve followed http://home.mag.cx/messenger/ site README instructions (‘make install’ instead of ./quickcam.sh)
The camera is now working.

By: global

global — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 02:23:58 +0000

NO not right
the 2nd line not working

sed -ie â€™s/su -p -c/sudo/â€™ ./quickcam.sh

with this error
sed: invalid option — p
…..

dose sed include -p option?
sed –help
cant see it

(Ubuntu Breezy 5.10)
(kernel-2.6.12-9-386)

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 12:42:20 +0000

Doesn’t work for me on breezy.
The problem when compiling is the absence of “remap_page_range” in recent kernels, which is called in qc-memory.c (warning message during compilation). The driver won’t load on a standard 2.6.12 kernel breezy (“unknown symbol in module quickcam.ko”).
When chanigin remap_page_range for remap_pfn_range, the driver will compile and load, but no picture and the system will crash after a few minutes