Depends on what kernel the distro ships with and what driver you use. I have been using openSuSE for a long time and got the cam to work before. It was a newer kernel with the pwc driver that made it not work anymore. Before in earlier versions of the kernel when I used to compile and install saillard's pwc driver as a module then it worked. Its not the driver's fault, its icompatiblity in kopete to work with the driver. This problem has already been submitted as a bug to KDE: http://bugs.kde.or...
That's because various distro's use different versions of KDE, and Kopete is included in KDE. The webcam worked in previous versions of Kopete.
Hello, I got the same webcam and the same problem. I tested my cam using mplayer and it works. mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l:width=352:height=288:device=/dev/video0 However, in kopete configuration the screen is black.