Logitech Quickcam for Notebooks 046d:08dd

Hi,

It's the first time I use Launchpad, I usually find answers directly on ubuntu-fr (you guessed it, I'm French). But here a tricky problem I've been dealing with for quite some time.

I just bought a Quickcam for Notebooks (PID : 046d:08dd) and since then, I've been trying to make it work on my GNU/Linux Ubuntu system. But it doesn't... Well, first of all, it doesn't work from scratch, I was expecting this, but after some time I've discovered that there was absolutely no post anywhere about this webcam in a language I could understand (French or English...).

Well... ok, I've just bought a crappy webcam. lol

Time to get my sleeves up ! I've downloaded gspca and looked at the sources, my webcam was not inside. After some researches in the windows' drivers to figure what bridge and sensor this webcam used, I found that the driver was the same than :

USB\VID_046D&PID_08A7.DeviceDesc="Logitech USB Camera (Image)"
USB\VID_046D&PID_08A9.DeviceDesc="Logitech USB Camera (Notebooks Deluxe)"
USB\VID_046D&PID_08AC.DeviceDesc="Logitech USB Camera (Easy/Cool)"
USB\VID_046D&PID_08AD.DeviceDesc="Logitech USB Camera (Communicate STX)"
USB\VID_046D&PID_08AE.DeviceDesc="Logitech USB Camera (Notebooks)"
USB\VID_046D&PID_08D7.DeviceDesc="Logitech USB Camera (Communicate STX)"
USB\VID_046D&PID_08D8.DeviceDesc="Logitech USB Camera (Notebooks Deluxe)"
USB\VID_046D&PID_08D9.DeviceDesc="Logitech USB Camera (IM/Connect)"
USB\VID_046D&PID_08DA.DeviceDesc="Logitech USB Camera (Messenger)"
USB\VID_046D&PID_08DD.DeviceDesc="Logitech USB Camera (Notebooks)

Well, I modified my gspca sources with this how-to (http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/gspca_spca5xx - sorry, that's in French) in order to add my 046d:08dd into it and used the same bridge and sensor as those ones.

First of all, is it a good or a bad assumption ?

If it's a bad one... Ok, my mistake, I'll do more researches...

If it's not, something went wrong, cause it's still not working. I've compiled the sources and modprobed gspca.

When I plug the webcam, dmesg send this :

[25577.952000] usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6
[25578.144000] usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

The second line kind of surprises me. I was waiting for something about gspca being used for the device.

Well... This webcam is equipped with a built in microphone, is it possible for Ubuntu to consider that it's only a "simple microphone" and not to take into account that it's a webcam ? Consequence : no reason to load gspca...

The microphone works, that's a good start, but it surely did before (I should have paid attention to this... but well).

I'm new with GNU/Linux (2 months now...) but I definitely need help.

"If this can't work on GNU/Linux : fix it... :p There's no reason it's not, and if there is, let's find why and correct it !"

I've tried what I could, now I ask the community. If anybody has an idea ! I would be really grateful ! (As one of my fellow board member of Ubuntu-fr who made the same silly purchase... :p)