[nylug-talk] acer aspire 5102 laptop & web cam revised

[Sunny Dubey]

On Saturday 23 December 2006 01:49, Mark wrote:

> I know the web cam is USB, and Acer calls it an Orbicam.  The system
> recognizes it as a USB device.
>
> So, the question is, what software should I use with this?  Digicam doesn't
> see it, and when I try to configure a camera with it, I don't have the
> proper camera listing for it.  Acer calls it an Orbicam.  This isn't on the
> Digicam list.

All USB devices come with a Vendor ID and a Product ID.  The combination are 
unique to each and every USB device.  Install the usbutils package on your 
distro and run the lsusb command.  You may get output like this:

[root at europa ~]# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 05ac:1205 Apple Computer, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

in our case my USB device (an Apple Ipod) has the vendor ID of 05ac and the 
product ID of 1205.  You can take either number and search for them at 
http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/ for any leads.

Cool, HTH

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Sunny Dubey

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