Who said webcams on Linux was hard?

Today I decided to go out and buy a cheap webcam, so I can do amateur pornography video chat to my friends. Cheap being the operative word, because I don't want to buy something expensive and then find that it doesn't work with Linux!

The shop I went to had two in my price range: A Dick Smith's el-cheapo webcam for $30, and a Logitech Quickcam Go for $35. Naturally, I'd heard about how Logitech cameras work well with Linux, so I chose the Go (surprisingly, I only got charged $30 for it anyway!)

Upon plugging it in, I did "dmesg" and was told this:

[  156.670421] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[  156.706767] ubuntu/media/gspcav1/gspca_core.c: USB SPCA5XX camera found.(SPCA561A)
[  156.715560] usbcore: registered new interface driver gspca
[  156.715566] ubuntu/media/gspcav1/gspca_core.c: gspca driver 01.00.12 registered

Linux had automatically recognised the camera and loaded the driver.

Kopete immediately brought up the camera's picture. Skype doesn't seem to be working with it, but then Skype is still in beta, and I don't know if Kopete has a lock on the camera device.

Logitech Quickcam Go. Works out-of-the-box with Linux.