ThinkPad T61 built-in camera [SOLVED]

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 13:13 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> 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?

Didn't find an RPM or HOWTO, but it's easy to check out the latest
Subversion version from svn://svn.berlios.de/linux-uvc/linux-uvc/trunk,
then make and make install.

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> > 
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                Matthew Saltzman

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