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James Ward (jamesward) wrote : uvcvideo broken on Lenovo W500

I just got a new Lenovo W500 laptop. The built-in webcam (unknown type) does not work with the latest kernel on Intrepid (linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic). Here is my dmesg when the driver loads:
[ 15.617312] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device <unnamed> (17ef:4807)
[ 15.618230] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo

When I use luvcview (or other applications) to try and use my webcam they do not work (nothing shows up).

I followed the instructions here:
http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=HowTo_compile_for_Ubuntu_6.06_LTS

Except I set the INSTALL_MOD_DIR to kernel/drivers/media/video/uvc

I installed the new driver and now it works fine.

Please patch the Intrepid kernel with the latest uvcvideo driver. Thanks.