[Cialug] Meeting topic - webcam driver?

[Chris Hilton]

I request that any solution to this be posted back to the list as I am
unable to attend, and have similar hardware.
Thanks

On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 15:50 -0600, David Champion wrote:
> If nobody else has a meeting topic, I have a project that should be 
> do-able. I have a little Veo portable webcam that isn't (last time I 
> checked) supported by the generic IBM Webcam driver. It uses a chipset 
> nearly identical to one of the supported Veo webcams, but has a 
> different USB identifier.
> 
> I bought this one because I knew the other Veo desktop USB webcam did 
> work under Linux, and I incorrectly assumed this one would too, and it 
> was really cheap at CompUSA at the time.
> 
> I did start this once, but had some issue getting the module to build 
> correctly... I could compile my patched driver, but it blew up somewhere 
> after that, and I got distracted by something shiny with blinky lights 
> and never got back to it.
> 
> I propose that we update the generic IBM webcam to add support for this, 
> and submit it back to the maintainers.
> 
> If anyone want to look into it before hand, the device has a model # of 
> "650VS23X". The driver file I'm attempting to mod is "ibmcam2.c" (2.4 
> kernel) or "ibmcam.c" (2.6 kernel). The supported Veo cameras have an ID 
> defined like this:
> 
> #define VEO_800D_PRODUCT_ID     0x800D  /* Veo Stingray, repackaged 
> Model 4 */
> 
> The one I'm adding looks like this:
> 
> #define VEO_MOBILE_PRODUCT_ID   0x8135  /* Veo Mobile */
> 
> -dc
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