Cant use Crystal Eye webcam on my Acer Laptop with Fedora 9

[Antonio M]

2008/7/5 Nicolae Ghimbovschi <xfreebird at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Rohan Kulkarni <rohan.sjce at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>        I have installed Fedora 9 on my Acer Aspire 4720 laptop. It
>> has a Crystal Eye Webcam. But with Fedora 9 I cant use it. It is
>> working fine with Windows XP. It is detected properly but doesn't
>> work. I installed cheese and skype but the webcam doesn't work in
> These don't provide webcam drivers.
>
> You might try to install gspca , here you can find what chips it supports
> http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html
>
> # yum install gspca
>
>> either of them.
>> gstreamer-properties shows the default video input plugin as v4l2 and
>> device as Acer CrystalEye webcam but the test for the webcam fails.
>> What should I do to make the webcam work?
>>
>> Thank you
>>
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funny, as it was working (with Cheese, Skype) until thursday
morning!!!! which update broke it??? not working even in F10

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