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  1. Bug #196811
  2. Comment #25

Comment 25 for bug 196811

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Alfredo Pironti (alfredo.pironti) wrote : Re: hal does not detect Quickcam Express as v4l-device

Update:
- the spca5xx driver is superseded by gspca. Which currently doesn't compile on Ubuntu Hardy (!!! see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gspca/+bug/213762). However, as stated at http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html, the old quickcam express webcam (ID 046d:0870) should not be supported. So it was not worth trying it.
- Then, I tried to patch the qc-usb driver. Since this driver does not compile on Ubuntu Hardy (!!! Again !!! see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qc-usb/+bug/213114) I made the following step:
  - download the latest qc-usb-source package from intrepid
  - extract it
  - patch it
  - compile, install and load it

Camorama works fine.
cheese --verbose writes only
device: /dev/video0
on output (as reported by Sebastian), however (surprisingly) the webcam still does NOT work with cheese!

Note that:
- with the plain driver (the one that ships with Ubuntu kernel), cheese --verbose does not output anything
- by setting hal properties by hand cheese worked

We're almost to the goal... we're just missing some bits about this very strange behavior...