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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

MSI WIND WEBCAM PROBLEM ON UBUNTU INTREPID

With a little configuration, webcam on MSI Wind could work better on Intrepid

MSI Wind have many webcam model. To know which webcam model install at your MSI, activate the webcam by press Fn-F6 and run this command from terminal:
$ lsusb

Find the webcam ID from the command output lsusb, example:5986:0203
5986:0203 BisonCam (Acer)

Download the latest UVC Linux driver from LinuxTV.org. For this example, the driver used is from http://linuxtv.org/hg/%7Epinchartl/uvcvideo/archieve/tip.tar.gz.

In order could installated, UVC Linux need some packages. The UVC Linux packages depencies which run this command:
$sudo apt-get install subversion build-essential linux-headers-
$(uname -r)

Do the installation process:
$tar xzvf tip.tar.gz
$cd uvcvideo-0f0594461ca5/
$make
$sudo make install
$sudo depmod -ae
$(uname -r)

After finish installation, reboot the notebook to activate the changes.

Source: InfoLinux Magazines

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