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Comment 29 for bug 219252

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Tino Meinen (a-t-meinen) wrote :

I have a Sony VIAO laptop here with a webcam with device ID 05ca:1830.
This is a Ricoh camera which needs the old r5u870 driver because this is a WDM type camera not a UVC one.

Compiling the driver no longer works on Ubunty Natty 10.04 because the 2.6.38 kernel has dropped videodev.h
You get this error when compiling:
ricoh-webcam-r5u870-0.11.6/r5u870/usbcam/usbcam.h:38:28: fatal error: linux/videodev.h: No such file or directory

In this thread
http://<email address hidden>/msg27519.html
it is suggested one could copy the (needed) contents of videodev.h over to libv4l1.h

Can anyone explain how to do that?
I'd like to get this webcam going under Natty.