Comment 81 for bug 280657

I've completely given up on linux and web cam's they don't work and when
they do thy don't work properly.

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 3:26 PM, kyleabaker <email address hidden>wrote:

> > David Robert Lewis: This driver in Lucid generally works except for
> Skype.
>
> Are you using the Microsoft LifeCam VX-1000 in Ubuntu Lucid 32-bit or
> 64-bit? I was unable to get the microphone to work in Lucid 64-bit. Now
> that I'm testing Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit, the microphone works on its own
> until the video capture is started, in which case the microphone no
> longer works for that session.
>
> Has anyone successfully gotten the microphone to work while capturing
> video with this driver and a 64-bit platform? Hardy seems to be the last
> point that this web cam was properly working.
>
> Discussion for fixing this webcam/driver with latest release:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1516541
>
> --
> Intrepid kernel 2.6.27-6 no supported image sensor dected for SN9C105
> (045e, 00f7)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/280657
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> Status in The Linux Kernel: Fix Released
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: In Progress
>
> Bug description:
> Image sensor not detected for Microsoft VX1000 web cam in kernel 2.6.27-6
> kernel, worked previously in 2.6.26 kernels. This may be an upstream issue
> as I tried Suse 11.1 beta with 2.6.27 kernel and had same issue.
>
> This is what should be detected the image sensor being OV7760.
>
> ( {USB_DEVICE(0x045e, 0x00f7), BSI(SN9C105, OV7660, 0x21)})
>
> My results can be found below:
>
> dmesg - result:
> [ 318.096282] usb 6-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and
> address 4
> [ 318.254802] usb 6-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> [ 318.259737] usb 6-1: SN9C105 PC Camera Controller detected (vid:pid
> 0x045E:0x00F7)
> [ 318.382372] usb 6-1: No supported image sensor detected for this bridge
>
> steve@Dell:~$ lsmod | grep video
> video 25104 0
> output 11008 1 video
> videodev 41344 1 sn9c102
> v4l1_compat 22404 1 videodev
>
> steve@Dell:~$ lsusb
> Bus 006 Device 004: ID 045e:00f7 Microsoft Corp. LifeCam VX-1000.
> Bus 006 Device 003: ID 03f0:1411 Hewlett-Packard PSC 750
> Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 007 Device 002: ID 0644:0200 TEAC Corp.
> Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 001 Device 004: ID 413c:2003 Dell Computer Corp. Keyboard
> Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:c016 Logitech, Inc. M-UV69a/HP M-UV96 Optical
> WheelMouse
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
>
> More info
> -------------
> Mode probe shows that sn9c105, which is required for this webcam is not
> found
>
> steve@Dell:~$ modprobe -v sn9c105
> FATAL: Module sn9c105 not found.
>
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