ThinkPad T61 built-in camera

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 09:50 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 09:59 +0200, kalinix wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 19:07 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > > Anyone gotten this device to work with Fedora?  Any idea where to look
> > > for help?  I've googled, but without much luck.  
> > > 
> > > TIA.
> > > 
> > > lsusb -v reports:
> > > 
> > > Bus 002 Device 002: ID 17ef:1004 ChipsBnk 
> > 
> > You may want to try gspca. You can find it on Livna repo. Just set you
> > livna repo and then yum install gspca.
> > 
> > 
> > Attention, the device type will be v4l not as v4l2.
> > 
> > I have an Lenovo webcam which works ok with it.
> 
> Thanks, tried that.  No joy...
> 
> gspca lists 0x17ef:0x4802, but not 0x17ef:0x1004.

Apparently, what is needed is the uvcvideo driver.  This doesn't seem to
be available from Livna, though 8^(.  It looks like it might be in F9.
Meanwhile, has anyone installed this driver in F8?  Any good HOTO
anywhere?

Thanks.

> 
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                Matthew Saltzman

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