[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)

[Jonathan]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 144745 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/144745

If anyone whose webcam is listed on http://moinejf.free.fr/webcam.html as
working still cannot get their camera to work, I can briefly list the steps
I took to get mine working correctly, and you're free to apply the same
logic to your camera.  I'm not knowledgeable enough to give technical help,
but perhaps others can or the developer can if you contact him.

I knew a little bit about what was going wrong with my camera.  The kernel
module sn9c102 was loading instead of the correct gspca kernel module.  Even
if I blacklisted sn9c102 that was loading incorrectly, the current version
of gspca was not handling my camera.  My camera is 0c45:613c and should have
been loading gspca_sonixj (from the link above).  I downloaded the latest
gspca source from:
http://linuxtv.org/hg/~jfrancois/gspca/archive/tip.tar.gz, extracted
it, moved to the directory in terminal and ran "make".  I then
had to edit my .config file in its v4l folder and comment out the line for
configuring SN9C102 by changing "CONFIG_USB_SN9C102=m" to "#
CONFIG_USB_SN9C102 is not set".  I also deleted .myconfig in the v4l
folder.  Then I re-ran "make" in terminal, and once it was done, I ran "sudo
make install".  (I realize there probably is a less stupid way of doing
this, but I didn't want to mess with "make config").  I also ran "sudo rmmod
sn9c102" in terminal to remove the conflicting kernel module and blacklisted
it in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist .  I think I had to restart my computer as
well after installing.  Once all that was done, I only had to plug in my
webcam and it works in everything: Cheese, Skype, Ekiga, etc.  I only had to
do this process once, although i'm not sure that I've had to upgrade my
kernel yet and I'm not sure if that'll screw this up at all.  Maybe having
dkms installed will mitigate that potential problem.

It looks like this will still be an issue in Jaunty (or it is currently at
least).  Is there any sort of bug I should file or info I can provide that
would help get things working ootb for my webcam (and others)?  Or is the
problem just that these gspca changes haven't made their way in to the
kernel version being used by Jaunty?

(Also, I apologize for this long response if all this information is
redundant to you.)

Jonathan

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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)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293259
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