issues with the driver of a Motion Eye webcam on a Sony Vaio

**m10** · October 10th, 2008

i have got a Sony Vaio VGN-FZ31S with a motion eye webcam wich does not work.

I have tried (some time ago) to install the r5u870 drivers (v. 0.11.2) and it did work once but after reboot it didn't work anymore.
I tried to fiddle around with it but nothing..

Today i wanted to give it another try and searched a bit on the net. I found this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=289836
and i followed the instructions on the last post http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=289836&page=22 (wich installs v 0.11.1 though)
but it did not work (opening cheese i see only rubbish instead of myself).

help would be much appreciated!

here is some info that might be useful:

Code:

mio@mw:~$ lsusb | grep Ricoh 
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 05ca:183b Ricoh Co., Ltd 
mio@mw:~$ uname -a
Linux mw 2.6.24-20-generic #1 SMP Mon Jul 28 13:49:52 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

PS i'm on Ubuntu 8.04 HH