Friday, June 5, 2009

omnivision webcam not working

OS: UBUNTU 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)
Kernel: 2.6.28-11-generic
Date: June 4th, 2009

Hi,
Well when I upgraded to Jaunty from Intrepid I didn't notice that my webcam is not working until when I came to video chat. Well frankly i couldn't find any proper solution page yet but I fixed the problem with installation of libv4l.
For me the camera was (output of lsusb):
  • Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05a9:2640 OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
Hope this solution will work for your omnivision cameras on 9.04. I'm not sure about other makes of cameras but you may still want to give it a try.
And I got it to work it with cheese. Yet to try with amsn, skype etc. will keep on updating this post as soon as I get to test them.

Download libv4l 0.5.8-1 from here.
And install it.

The solution was nowhere as such but it was mentioned somewhere that I need to have libv4l. So I tried it and it worked :)

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