crystal webcam won`t work

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David Joined: Dec 12, 2008 Posts: 19 Location:Kosovo Other Topics	Posted Jan 02, 2009 at 12:23:47 PM Subject: crystal webcam won`t work Acer Laptop - SUSE Linux 11.0 dual boot with Vista Webcam works ok under Vista but won`t work under Linux. Driver appears to be loaded but can`t use the webcam either with Kopete or Skype.
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Joined Jul 26, 2008 Posts: 703 Location: Other Topics	Posted: Jan 02, 2009 8:00:10 PM Subject: crystal webcam won`t work I don't run Open Suse, but maybe this link will help to make sure you have the right driver loaded. http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Web_Cameras
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David Joined Dec 12, 2008 Posts: 19 Location:Kosovo Other Topics	Posted: Jan 04, 2009 11:33:30 AM Subject: Re: crystal webcam won`t work I`ve reloaded the uvcvideo driver and also tried lucview and gqcam. lucview gives me a blue screen with the FPS changing but no picture. gqcam gives "error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" Within Kopete - on configure, Video, I get nothing.
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JimT Joined Jan 06, 2009 Posts: 3 Other Topics	Posted: Jan 06, 2009 6:22:13 PM Subject: Re: crystal webcam won`t work The kernel-2.6.27 has drivers that fix a boat load of driver problems, Webcams, Atheros wireless drivers. what kernel version do you have ?
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David Joined Dec 12, 2008 Posts: 19 Location:Kosovo Other Topics	Posted: Jan 09, 2009 11:30:11 AM Subject: crystal webcam won`t work Thanks for the response both. I`ve now upgraded to suse 11.1 and the problem has disappeared. Not exactly fixed - just overcome... kernel is now 2.6.27.7-9 so perhaps that`s done it.
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