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I think it would be helpful if there was a running thread of webcams that are known to work with Kopete. This is my attempt.

I bought the Creative! Live Webcam Notebook Pro with VF0250 in the serial number from Fry's on Saturday in the USA. It is $49.99 with a $30 mail in rebate, so only costs $20.00. It uses the gspca driver and supports v4l and v4l2. It installed very easily and I had the webcam working in under 5 minutes. My yahoo friends are able to view my webcam with no problem and I can view theirs. I experience the same laggy behavior while typing messages that has been reported in another thread, but other than that it works perfectly.

I also have a Logitech Quickcam Fusion webcam that only supports v4l2 and it does not work at this time in Kopete, at least I have not been able to get it to work.

I am running Arch Linux with KDE 3.5.6 and Kopete version 0.12.4.

I hope this helps someone out or if you are looking to get a webcam points you in the right direction.

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Originally posted by cylent
I am very curious to know what IM program did you use to get your webcam working for them to see you in Yahoo Messenger?

Cylent, I am using Kopete which is why it is in the subject line like so: [Kopete] and in my post I stated:
"My yahoo friends are able to view my webcam with no problem and I can view theirs."
Kopete is an IM and chat client in KDE.