Comment 14 for bug 147757

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

I did some further research and it seems my webcam is supported by the r5u870 driver - http://wiki.mediati.org/R5u870 . I'm guessing that driver wouldn't make it for Hardy even without the firmware issues. However, it seems to me that blacklisting 05ca:1810, and maybe 05ca:1870, and the uvcvideo driver would be the best solution.

Incidentally, here are the alias entries created for the r5u870 driver:
alias usb:v05CAp183Bd*dc*dsc*dp*ic0Eisc01ip00* r5u870
alias usb:v05CAp183Ad*dc*dsc*dp*ic0Eisc01ip00* r5u870
alias usb:v05CAp1839d*dc*dsc*dp*ic0Eisc01ip00* r5u870
alias usb:v05CAp1837d*dc*dsc*dp*ic0Eisc01ip00* r5u870
alias usb:v05CAp1836d*dc*dsc*dp*ic0Eisc01ip00* r5u870
alias usb:v05CAp1835d*dc*dsc*dp*ic0Eisc01ip00* r5u870
alias usb:v05CAp1812d*dc*dsc*dp*ic0Eisc01ip00* r5u870
alias usb:v05CAp1810d*dc*dsc*dp*ic0Eisc01ip00* r5u870
alias usb:v05CAp1870d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip* r5u870
alias usb:v05CAp1834d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip* r5u870
alias usb:v05CAp1833d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip* r5u870
alias usb:v05CAp1832d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip* r5u870
alias usb:v05CAp1830d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip* r5u870

There seems to be a fair bit of overlap between it and this uvcvideo driver alias:
alias usb:v*p*d*dc*dsc*dp*ic0Eisc01ip00* uvcvideo