Trust Webcam on ubuntu 12.04

Question

My Trust WB-1400T webcam does not work on Ubuntu 12.04. I've tried using cheese &Skype but nothing seems working. Can anyone help me on this please?

Solution 1

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 093a:2460 Pixart Imaging, Inc. Q-TEC WEBCAM 100

You will most likely need the video4linux support libraries.

Check if you have them already.

 locate v4l1compat.so

In my case, the output is /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l1compat.so, yours might be different if you're on 32bit.

If it't not there, just install it:

sudo apt-get install libv4l-0

and try to locate it again.

Try to launch cheese with preloading the library

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/your-path-to-lib/v4l1compat.so cheese

TLDP has some background information on shared libraries and their preloading.

Solution 2

first you have to check is the camera is attached
start the terminal by Ctrl+Alt+T then execute lsusb, do you see something like ?

Bus 002 Device 003: ID 093rd: 260th Pixart Imaging, Inc.

Comments

[user246113]

No. I see this : Bus 002 Device 002: ID 093a:2460 Pixart Imaging, Inc. Q-TEC WEBCAM 100 Bus 003 Device 002: ID 058f:9360 Alcor Micro Corp. 8-in-1 Media Card Reader Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

[user246113]

it does not work.when I open cheese the light appears phosphorescent and the rest just blank

[Saurav Kumar]

Now you have two choices. 1st try the answer given by 3rd person 2nd, try this post

[user246113]

nothing seems working. that's what appears :ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/your-path-to-lib/v4l1compat.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. (cheese:4291): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkImage to a GtkToggleButton, but as a GtkBin subclass a GtkToggleButton can only contain one widget at a time; it already contains a widget of type GtkLabel