Cant use Crystal Eye webcam on my Acer Laptop with Fedora 9

[Rohan Kulkarni]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/7/7 Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com>:
>> 2008/7/6 Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com>:
>>> On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 21:02 +0530, Rohan Kulkarni wrote:
>>>> I installed kernel-devel and the finally installed the linux-uvc
>>>> driver :) but still the webcam is not working :(
>>>
>>> Please don't top post. It screws up the reading of the progression of
>>> the problem and responses. If you've read other posts, you may note that
>>> everyone else will respond at the bottom. It's easier on the next guy
>>> with the same problem who google searches for answers. Thanx, Ric
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>>
>> I am back to my F9 system, and it is pratically a standard F9 with no
>> additional drivers!!!!
>> My Browser Hardware sees the webcam as SuYin Acer CristallEye webcam
>> with uvcvideo driver.
>> This is the complete output of my lsmod command
>>
>> /sbin/lsmod
>> Module                  Size  Used by
>> bridge                 46104  0
>> bnep                   14592  2
>> rfcomm                 34576  4
>> l2cap                  22272  16 bnep,rfcomm
>> bluetooth              47588  5 bnep,rfcomm,l2cap
>> autofs4                20356  2
>> fuse                   41116  5
>> sunrpc                151412  3
>> cpufreq_ondemand       10124  1
>> acpi_cpufreq           11532  1
>> loop                   16772  0
>> dm_multipath           18056  0
>> ipv6                  221660  33
>> snd_hda_intel         336928  6
>> snd_seq_dummy           6660  0
>> arc4                    5760  2
>> tg3                   103812  0
>> snd_seq_oss            30364  0
>> snd_seq_midi_event      9600  1 snd_seq_oss
>> iTCO_wdt               13476  0
>> snd_seq                48448  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
>> snd_seq_device         10124  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
>> snd_pcm_oss            42496  0
>> snd_mixer_oss          16768  2 snd_pcm_oss
>> snd_pcm                67076  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
>> firewire_ohci          21636  0
>> snd_timer              21640  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
>> snd_page_alloc         11400  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
>> snd_hwdep              10500  1 snd_hda_intel
>> i915                   85636  2
>> video                  20368  0
>> output                  6656  1 video
>> i2c_i801               11920  0
>> sdhci                  16908  0
>> uvcvideo               49416  0
>> compat_ioctl32          5120  1 uvcvideo
>> videodev               30208  1 uvcvideo
>> battery                14084  0
>> firewire_core          34464  1 firewire_ohci
>> ac                      8068  0
>> button                 10000  0
>> acer_wmi               12596  0
>> wmi                     9640  1 acer_wmi
>> ecb                     6528  2
>> crypto_blkcipher       17924  1 ecb
>> ricoh_mmc               7552  0
>> iTCO_vendor_support     6916  1 iTCO_wdt
>> iwl3945               146140  0
>> mac80211              181992  1 iwl3945
>> cfg80211               25096  2 iwl3945,mac80211
>> snd                    48312  19
>> snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
>> soundcore               9288  2 snd
>> drm                   145508  3 i915
>> i2c_algo_bit            8964  1 i915
>> mmc_core               40604  1 sdhci
>> i2c_core               20628  4 i915,i2c_i801,drm,i2c_algo_bit
>> v4l1_compat            15364  2 uvcvideo,videodev
>> pcspkr                  6272  0
>> joydev                 12608  0
>> crc_itu_t               5760  1 firewire_core
>> sg                     31028  0
>> sr_mod                 17064  0
>> cdrom                  32796  1 sr_mod
>> ahci                   26760  2
>> ata_piix               20100  0
>> libata                127328  2 ahci,ata_piix
>> dm_snapshot            18468  0
>> dm_zero                 5632  0
>> dm_mirror              26116  0
>> dm_mod                 48980  9 dm_multipath,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
>> usb_storage            76040  2
>> sd_mod                 25624  6
>> scsi_mod              120948  5 sg,sr_mod,libata,usb_storage,sd_mod
>> ext3                  108552  2
>> jbd                    40852  1 ext3
>> mbcache                10116  1 ext3
>> uhci_hcd               22928  0
>> ohci_hcd               22404  0
>> ehci_hcd               32268  0
>>
>> and I am running my system on 2.6.25.9-76.fc9.i686 kernel
>>
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>>
>
> and also kernel 2.6.25.10-85.fc9.i686 supports the Webcam. I wonder
> why it has been removed at the moment from F10...but this is another
> question!!!
>
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Hello,

I installed kernel-devel and the finally installed the linux-uvc
driver :) but still the webcam is not working :(
Any other suggestions to make my crystal eye webcam work?