[Bug 293259] Re: Some gspca Webcams not detected in ubuntu 8.10 and Kernel 2.6.27 anymore (for which in 8.04 an alternative driver had to be blacklisted)

[sparks40]

Good Morning!

For anyone interested, I am using Ubuntu 8.10 and have installed package
libv4l-0, so that I can continue to use skype. The library shows up as
version 0.5.20b and my camera shows up as:

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 093a:2460 Pixart Imaging, Inc. Q-TEC WEBCAM 100

The camera is currently able to produce video in Skype but the frame
rate is only about 1/2 of what it used to be under Ubuntu 8.4.1. Under
8.4.1 the CPU utilization was appx. 95%m while under 8.10 the
utilization is only appx. 35%. I assume that this is due to the format
conversion taking place in kernel space under 8.4.1. While I am pleased
that the camera is working again, it can hardly be referred to as "full
motion video" any longer. I borrowed a Logitech Quickcam Deluxe for
Notebooks (which is supposed to work under Open Source) just as a check,
but that didn't work at all.

Thanks for sharing all this valuable information with everyone as I have
read the posts with great interest. I'm hoping that things will
ultimately get ironed out to where they used to be.

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Some gspca Webcams not detected in ubuntu 8.10 and Kernel 2.6.27 anymore (for which in 8.04 an alternative driver had to be blacklisted)
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