Comment 37 for bug 273727

For the people who need to patch the gspca source to use a special camera like the E2500 they should get a more recent source available here:
http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb (download gz or bz2)

Use these instructions: http://moinejf.free.fr/gspca_README.txt

in my case it didn't help, my camera still doesn't work since Ubuntu 8.10, although it worked with 8.04. And as I have recompiled the driver I don't think that the gspca driver that comes with ubuntu is causing the problem.

I believe it is something with the kernel itself, but as I don't know how the linux kernel and driver function I don't know what could be wrong.

My camera: Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. ZC0303 WebCam
GSPCA-driver: gspca_zc3xx

it works with zc0301 but only with v4l2 and thus only with ekiga. (no v4l support here) In Hardy 8.04 I just blacklisted zc0301 and gspca took over the cam automatically.

in 8.10 (kernel 2.6.27) , dmesg only gives me:
[29143.996060] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6
[29144.197121] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

I strongly believe that the problem has to do with the kernel, not the gspca driver iself.