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Logitech Communicate STX does not work on 9.10

Asked by Kiko Barcelli

Hi my webcam Logitech Communicate STX used to work perfectly with ubuntu 8.04... now I installed 9.10 fresh from CD and does not work anymore...
This seems to be a known issue from what I read, but not sure what I should do... just wait?... is there any temporary workaround?
Thanks.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

lsusb

There is an 8 character hexadecimal identifier you can websearch for to find guides.

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Kiko Barcelli (kikobar) said : 		#2

This is the output of lsusb:

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 13b1:001d Linksys
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 046d:08d7 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Communicate STX
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=344911

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Kiko Barcelli (kikobar) said : 		#4

Thanks.
I found out that my camera worked with cheese, so my problem was on some applications like skype, so I tried pre-loading the v4l1 back-compatibility pack as described in the following guide and it works!

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Webcam

Regards!