One logitech webcam gives shitty picture but other doesnt.

[ajacosta]

Hello I had a post earlier about my webcam having image uses, well i did some small troubleshooting and decided to use another webcam to see how it worked. When i plugged in the other webcam everything was fine image wise i still dont get the webcam to work during the wizard but i dont really care about that.
the webcam that works is a QuickCam® Pro 5000 and the one with image uses is a QuickCam® for Notebooks (this one gives an almost pitch black image). I tried them both on Windows and they work perfectly the first one has better image in windows than the other but barely noticeable, but in linux the second one barely gives an image.
Any ideas?
btw im using debian 4.0 etch

[why.arent.guests.allowed]

Not all webcams are the same.
And off course they work fine in windows, they are made that way.

This is very likely a driver issue. They probably use different drivers which use different color palettes.

Before you buy a piece of hardware, make sure they work in Linux

Try updating your webcam drivers. Check the mailing list for your webcam drivers.
Try finding which color palette both webcams use a post it here.
Search the forum about color palettes, this was mentioned before.

I know this isn't much help, but it's all I can do :s

[lordamus]

did u use gspca webcam drivers ?  I`m using logitech communicate stx with gspca quite good image quality.not as good as windows native drivers but fine.

[ajacosta]

yeah im using those drivers. I guess the quickam for notebooks just sucks at life.... cause the other one works perfectly, and ive read in forums all over the place that the quick cam for notebooks (08DD or something like that) has problems all over linux.