Comment 15 for bug 435352

In my case, upgrading to 2.6.31-12 solved the issue. The camera now works in cheese.
from dmesg:
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[ 117.048142] usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
[ 117.447313] usb 1-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 117.583501] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[ 117.600079] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device BisonCam, NB Pro (5986:0203)
[ 117.621921] input: BisonCam, NB Pro as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-5/1-5:1.0/input/input9
[ 117.622085] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[ 117.622097] USB Video Class driver (v0.1.0)
[ 129.810453] uvcvideo: UVC non compliance - GET_MIN/MAX(PROBE) incorrectly supported. Enabling workaround.
[ 129.880095] uvcvideo: device BisonCam, NB Pro requested null bandwidth, defaulting to lowest.
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