Q-Tec Webcam 100 (093a:2460) video quality is horrible at best
- by Sir Emeth
I just bought a new usb webcam for my desktop setup of Ubuntu Natty Narwhal. I plugged it in, started up Cheese, and saw my smiling face. But it was green and lined, very poor quality overall. I am skeptical that this is due to a poor quality webcam. :P
I tried it in Skype, Google+, and Gchat, but all of those showed only a black screen. They recognized the webcam as present, but showed no stream from it.
Kamoso showed a black screen as well, and Camorama had even poorer quality than Cheese.
Here are the details for the webcam from lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 093a:2460 Pixart Imaging, Inc. Q-TEC WEBCAM 100
Am I missing a driver, or are there settings somewhere I need to tweak?