spca5xx broken in ubuntu 5.10?

[neil woolford]

On Sun, 2005-12-25 at 22:55 +0100, Thomas Kaiser (ubuntu) wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I just installed Ubuntu 5.10 on my Laptop and saw that the spca5xx 
> driver for webcams is already included :-)

There appears to be a problem with this driver.  (Check out Bugzilla
http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14566 )  I had exactly the
same problem as you detail below, and we aren't alone...

> 
> Unfortunatly, none of my webcams are working with the spca5xx driver 
> included in Ubuntu 5.10.
[snip] 
>  give me a kernel crash. I did use the cams in the past 
> with "self compiled" spca5xx from the spca5xx homepage in Ubuntu.

It is a problem with the package in Breezy.  It is fixed for Dapper, I
checked and it already works for my webcam under Dapper Flight 2.

Neil
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