First we need to make sure that the camera is detected<\/span><\/p>\n lsusb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n and you should be getting something like this<\/p>\n Bus 005 Device 002: ID 046d:0896 Logitech, Inc.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Now we need to install some prerequisites to make able to build the drivers for the webcam<\/p>\n sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Now for getting the drivers. The main download page is here: http:\/\/mxhaard.free.fr\/download.html <\/a> tar zxvf gspcav1-20070508.tar.gz<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Compile and install the drivers<\/p>\n cd gspcav1-20070508\/ Now we have the drivers compiled and installed. A personal note. On this laptop i moved the drivers to \/opt\/gspcav1-20070508\/ before compiling, and installing. Just because i like to keep my own personal order in the folders.<\/p>\n Next we need to tune the module before loading. I will explain why later, but its needed for colors to be shown correctly.<\/p>\n sudo gedit \/etc\/modprobe.d\/options<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Add this to the end of the file to make sure colors are displayed correctly. Unless of course you are happy looking like a smurf \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n options gspca force_rgb=0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n In the original tutorial the value was supposed to be 1, but for my laptop setting it to 0 seems to be correct value. Now save the file and close gedit.<\/p>\n Now we are ready to load the module, so we can check out webcam is working.<\/p>\n sudo modprobe gspca<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Now check that the device node exists.<\/p>\n ls \/dev\/video*<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The result should be something like mine here:<\/p>\n \/dev\/video0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n If you did get a similar result the webcam is now ready for testing. First we need to install a webcam application to use for testing. Camorama is perfect for this. If you dont already have it installed just use this command<\/p>\n sudo apt-get install camorama<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And now we can start the application with<\/p>\n camorama<\/p><\/blockquote>\n But whats this ?! You seem blue in the face.. have no fear my blue friend. In Camorama under ‘view’ select ‘show effects’.Now the effects pane is added to the dialog. Right click and ‘add filter’ and select the ‘color correction filter’ Now you should instantly become more humanised colors.<\/p>\n The trick here is that its only camorama, so far that i know of, that reverses the colors. So using the color correction filter it shows correctly. Other applications don’t need this. So fire up Ekiga softphone to further test out your webcam and in general just have fun \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n Hope this helped some people, especially users with this specific laptop. Questions, or comments can be left in comments section \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n
\nAt the time of writing the newest driver is gspcav1-20070508.tar.gz<\/a>
\nLets unpack them<\/p>\n
\nmake
\nsudo make install<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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