Ubuntu 10.10 and kernel-2.6.35 driver for webcams like Ricoh Webcam 1000,etc (r5u870)

[MODYSAMA]

Hello,
I need the owner reply,
I face the same problem of camunit with genius face cam 312.

[nikunjbadjatya]

It worked wonders.. !! Thanks mate.!

[pabloikba]

Great! Thank you!

[tomapio]

dude, you have saved my life twice... i thought you should know that...
BTW, you forgot to mention that after installing the driver you haveto load it by typing

modprobe r5u870

in the console

Thanks!

[Shbeeb]

WORKED WORKED WORKED
Laptop: Sony Vaio VGN-TZ37GN
Ubuntu 10.10
Kernel: 2.6.35

THaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAnnnnnnnnnn nnnnnnnxxxxxxxXXXX

[dogturd]

Hello. I am running Ubuntu 10.10 Kernel 2.6.35
I followed the driver instructions. Web Cam works with Cheese but black screen when test button on Skype. Any ideas please?

[farzadbashtani]

It works .... thanks man

[carega]

Not working! Using a Compaq Presario CQ40, the webcam is not even being detected through lsusb

[3pei]

modprobe r5u870

thank you , I will update the instructions.

and to others:

if you got "open /dev/video0: No such file or directory" or errors in a similar way, just type the command which tomapio write here. and maybe you want to google "how to load driver automatically".

I can confirm that skype is not working. but if there are other apps working, it may have some compatibility bugs in skype. if softwares used same interfaces and they used them in a same way (which are provided by kernel and protocols), they shouldn't get different results.

I didn't use the webcam much, and I had never tried to find what happened with apps like skype. so I am not really familiar with these problems. if anybody have thoughts about situation which might result these problems and if you think that we could correct them in the webcam driver, plz tell me, I will go into it.

[novatillasku]

There's Ricoh r5u870 for 2.6.38 kernel? (Natty narwhal)