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Good Morning!
For anyone interested, I am using Ubuntu 8.10 and have installed package libv4l-0, so that I can continue to use skype. The library shows up as version 0.5.20b and my camera shows up as:
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 093a:2460 Pixart Imaging, Inc. Q-TEC WEBCAM 100
The camera is currently able to produce video in Skype but the frame rate is only about 1/2 of what it used to be under Ubuntu 8.4.1. Under 8.4.1 the CPU utilization was appx. 95%m while under 8.10 the utilization is only appx. 35%. I assume that this is due to the format conversion taking place in kernel space under 8.4.1. While I am pleased that the camera is working again, it can hardly be referred to as "full motion video" any longer. I borrowed a Logitech Quickcam Deluxe for Notebooks (which is supposed to work under Open Source) just as a check, but that didn't work at all.
Thanks for sharing all this valuable information with everyone as I have read the posts with great interest. I'm hoping that things will ultimately get ironed out to where they used to be.