Using the Micro Innovations IC435C web cam with Cheese under Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

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Working in a computer refurbishing environment I get a lot of opportunity to test equipment. One of the nice surprises came a few weeks ago when someone bought a Micro Innovations IC435C web cam from a local bargain store and brought it into our shop. The client wanted us to install the drivers for the camera in their Windows machine. We did the installation and also popped it into our Ubuntu Linux machine.

Ubuntu normally doesn't have any web camera applications installed so I installed Cheese:

sudo apt-get install cheese

The camera box suggests that the camera can do 640x480, but if you examine the box carefully it does so through software interpolation. Hardware wise it's only 352x288.

This isn't a great web cam, but it's cheap and works with Ubuntu 9.10.