Brian actually wrote that driver himself and integrated it into the gspca framework.
There are two advantages: The gspca driver is in mainline/vanilla/linus kernel and thus shipped with every major distribution; no need to compile and configure stuff yourself. So basically using kernel 2.6.31 or later saves a lot of time. Also this (non-gspca) driver isn't under development anymore. There are no bug fixes (or rather no bug reports) or new features and of course no support for new kernel versions being introduced to the repository. Good luck, GWater Am Samstag, 6. Februar 2010 20:43:14 schrieb David Mebane: > Brian, > > Thanks -- I actually did have libv4l installed, but not making the node (I > think it had to be done before) does the trick. I also have to start skype > with the preloaded v4l2compat.so (a 32-bit one -- my system is 64-bit), but > that also now works. > > I remember two years ago or so when I happened upon you guys -- there had > been much hand-wringing among various Linux user groups about when gspca > would get around to our camera types. I guess that all finally happened, > eh? Any particular advantage to migrating over to their version? > > -- Lets make microdia webcams plug'n play, (currently plug'n pray) To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Visit us online https://groups.google.com/group/microdia
