Ubuntu 8.10 - sadly, the R5U870 will not work on this as stated on the official site at http://wiki.mediati.org/R5u870 it does state in large wording that r5u870 is currently broken on 2.6.26+ kernels!
However it does mention one could try the userspace driver instead which you can find here: http://www.bitbucket.org/ahixon/r5u87x/wiki/Home I've used this and the good news is that it works on Ubuntu 8.10, but it isn't quite 100% perfect - ie in Cheese, seeing a 640x480 video, it's just fine. But using something else such as Skype or Flash (which use 320x240 video resolution) - yu get a cropped picture, that's not quite right (I see a mirror effect - ie two of myself). If however you are happy with being limited to just 640x480 video or know of a way to fix for lower resolution...here's how to get it: Packages - the site mention packages and Ubuntu is mentioned, but there's no packages available so you'll have to install from source however this is simple: 1. install what's needed: $ sudo apt-get install mercurial build-essential libusb-dev libglib2.0-dev 2. Fetch source: $ hg clone http://bitbucket.org/ahixon/r5u87x/ 3. Change into r5u87x directory $ cd r5u87x 4. Compile $ make 5. It's very short and then you'll need to load driver so do this next $ sudo ./loader If your camera is detected and supported you'll get something like this next: Searching for device... Found camera : 05ca:183a Firmware : ucode/r5u87x-05ca-183a.fw Camera reports positive microcode state. Camera reports microcode version 0x0111. Not doing anything - camera already setup. Successfully uploaded firmware to device 05ca:183a! (in my case, it doesn't do anything as my camera is already setup, I've already done the loader bit) 6. Next you'll need your system to be aware of this change so you need to re-modprobe uvcvideo so do this: $ sudo modprobe -r uvcvideo $ sudo modprobe uvcvideo Now fire up Cheese (if you don't have it - sudo apt-get install cheese) and enjoy watching yourself. -- [needs-packaging] Ricoh R5U870 Webcam Driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120434 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
