I posted this question to eeeusers.com, but I also thought somebody here knows how to solve this problem: the gtkam asks the type of the webcam, but I don't know it. I don't know which terminal command tells it.

In a terminal, type:

lspci

and see if you can find the webcam.

Alternatively, open control center>Hardware>Manage hardware (need to enter your password) and see if the web cam is displayed (it was not in my laptop).

I hope this helps.

Pedro

plvera wrote:In a terminal, type:

lspci

and see if you can find the webcam.

Alternatively, open control center>Hardware>Manage hardware (need to enter your password) and see if the web cam is displayed (it was not in my laptop).

I hope this helps.

Pedro

Thank you for trying, but neither of those did help.

Is this a built in camera? If so the eee forums should be able to tell you. Also lspci should give something, maybe lsusb?

I thought gtkam was for regular cameras not video?

Maybe this will help:
DebianEeePC/HowTo/Configure

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url was:"http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Configure#Webcam.28uvcvideo.29"
linktext was:"http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowT ... vcvideo.29"
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I have not yet used the webcam on my eepc, don't have it at hand

eriefisher wrote:Is this a built in camera? If so the eee forums should be able to tell you. Also lspci should give something, maybe lsusb?

Yes, it is a built in cam. lspci gave no cam type, lsusb is not yet tested. I'm on my Mac now.

I'm still waiting for the eee forum to help, unless lsusb or lagopus' link won't help.