appropriate driver for webcam

[icegood]

Cannot find right one. My camera is
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04f2:b1e5 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
and it doesn't seem to be within
certified ones

As result webcamera is inverted in all but cheese applications
(skype, kamerka, both different adobe flash plugins under
firefox (older one) and chrome).
How to fix it?

[icegood]

Clear, it should be driver issue.
It's just plugged upside down
and should be recognized by libv4l automatically

[curiosity]

Hi, I had the same problem with Skype on my ASUS and here is the shortest solution (for Skype at least):

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop

then, in the line Exec= :

Exec= bash -c 'LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype %U'

In my case it worked. I have Ubuntu 12.04, for other version you may localize the file with:

localize v4l1compat.so

and use the other path instead.

You can try to use the same command before running every other application which uses the webcam, but I didn't check that.

[icegood]

i wonder which library system found if v4l1compat.so wasn't pre-loaded first. In my case both kamerka and adobe flash (via http://www.testwebcam.com/ service) show inverted images even with preloading.