vx-1000 webcam supported in linux kernel 2.6.30 (currently in Ubuntu 9.10)

[Thomas Kaiser]

On 06/03/2009 09:47 PM, H.S. wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Just wanted to share that Microsoft VX-1000 webcam works in Jaunty but
> by using the new kernel, 2.6.30, from Karmic. How to pull the new kernel
> from Karmic to Jaunty is described in my recent post (sub: apt pinning
> and pulling new kernel from karmic).
> 
> Under 2.6.30 kernel, syslog shows the following when the camera is
> detected during boot process:
> 
> Jun  4 00:15:17 jaunty kernel: [   10.808648] usb 2-1: SN9C105 PC Camera
> Controller detected (vid:pid 0x045E:0x00F7)
> Jun  4 00:15:17 jaunty kernel: [   10.953602] usb 2-1: No supported
> image sensor detected for this bridge
> Jun  4 00:15:17 jaunty kernel: [   10.953663] usbcore: registered new
> interface driver sn9c102
> Jun  4 00:15:17 jaunty kernel: [   10.989147] usbcore: registered new
> interface driver snd-usb-audio
> 
> ~$ lsusb  | grep Micro
> Bus 002 Device 002: ID 045e:00f7 Microsoft Corp. LifeCam VX-1000.
> 
> (This camera created a /dev/video0 device)
> 
> And cheese application was able to display the video from the webcam.
> The video also worked in Ekiga.
> 
> Note that the camera is also detected in Jaunty 2.6.28 kernel but no
> /dev/video0 device is created. Moreover, the gspca-source module in
> Jaunty fails to compile. Also, the gspca module from
> http://linuxtv.org/hg/~jfrancois/gspca/ did compile, also created the
> /dev/video0 device, but did not show a video from the camera. Not to
> mention that fact this gspca module changes the kernel modules
> permanently and the only way to revert that is to resintall Jaunty's
> kernel (how, see my recent post with sub.: how to remove manually
> installed gspca modules). In short, gspca in Jaunty is a mess.

See my other post. As soon as you start to install self compiled kernel 
modules, you should know what you are doing.

Self installed modules will not be known by the package manager. So, 
_you_ have to take care.

Backup the involved things before doing a manual install. ;-)

Thomas