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Installing the Lenovo USB Webcam (type 40Y8519, [http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:item.detail?GroupID=38&Code=40Y8519&current-category-id=E3D2815920A642A1B3F1A5B17910FC72 Webpage at Lenovo Products]) under Linux 2.6.31.1 required the gspca vc032x module to be built from an [http://linuxtv.org/hg/~jfrancois/gspca/ external developer tree].
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Installing the Lenovo USB Webcam (type 40Y8519, [http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:item.detail?GroupID=38&Code=40Y8519&current-category-id=E3D2815920A642A1B3F1A5B17910FC72 Webpage at Lenovo Products])
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* under Linux 2.6.31.1 required the gspca vc032x module to be built from an [http://linuxtv.org/hg/~jfrancois/gspca/ external developer tree],
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* under Linux 2.6.32-rc5 is working out of the box.
 
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Revision as of 00:39, 25 October 2009

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Installing the Lenovo USB Webcam (type 40Y8519, Webpage at Lenovo Products)

  • under Linux 2.6.31.1 required the gspca vc032x module to be built from an external developer tree,
  • under Linux 2.6.32-rc5 is working out of the box.

On a 64-bit machine Skype shall be started something similar like

# LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype

if you would like to use the webcam for video.