The Ubuntu Linux version is: $ cat /etc/issue.net Ubuntu 7.04 The Linux kernel version is: $ uname -a Linux xxx-laptop 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux The fresh install will detect the webcam: dmesg | grep Crystal [ 22.116000] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Acer CrystalEye webcam (064e:a101) Camorama and other applications that do not support v4l2 will not work. The webcam driver uvcvideo (linux-uvc) supports v4l2 only. v4l1 is officially deprecated. To test, you can use Ekiga softphone or to take webcam snapshots use luvcview. Source code: http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Investigation/uvc/luvcview-20070512.tar.gz You will also need libsdl1.2-dev (for SDL libraries) and build-essential (for building tools like gcc and make utility). $ sudo aptitude install build-essential libsdl1.2-dev $ wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Investigation/uvc/luvcview-20070512.tar.gz $ tar zxvf luvcview-20070512.tar.gz $ cd luvcview-20070512 $ make $ make install To