Same thing happens with me using Logitech E3500, Kubuntu 8.04, amd64. The camera works just fine with Skype, Cheese, Kopete and luvcview, but fails with xawtv (symptoms as above), camorama ("cannot open video device") and ekiga ("video driver doesn't support the requested video format").
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