Comment 0 for bug 293259

I have a Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. ZC0303 WebCam
GSPCA-driver: gspca_zc3xx

the camera is detected when the zc0301 driver is loaded, 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 and cam worked flawlessly.

Since 8.10 the cam is not detected after removing zc0301 anymore. 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 think it is connected with the kernel 2.6.27, and I have found a similar bug at bugzilla.kernel.org:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11920

I was able to compile the newest version of gspca using these instructions: http://moinejf.free.fr/gspca_README.txt
Still after installing the new drivers the camera is not detected. Thus 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, or the way gspca and v4l are built into the kernel, but as I don't really know how the linux kernel and driver function I don't know what could be wrong.