Hello, Description of problem: There is no hardware support for the integrated webcam on Dell Inspiron 1520 notebook. No userland application seems to "see" the webcam. Here is the smolt hardware profile of Dell Inspiron 1520: http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/show?UUID=28caf2c3-9766-4fe1-9e4c-d6b0ba8a0132 and here is the full output of /sbin/lspci -vv http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=152717 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.23-5.fc8 How reproducible: Always. Actual results: Integrated webcam is not recognised by any application on Dell Inspiron 1520. Expected results: Integrated webcam should be "seen" by applications, at least in VGA mode. Regards, Răzvan
uvc_driver.c needs: /* OmniVision OEM Dell Notebook */ { .match_flags = USB_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_DEVICE | USB_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_INT_INFO, .idVendor = 0x05a9, .idProduct = 0x2640, .bInterfaceClass = USB_CLASS_VIDEO, .bInterfaceSubClass = 1, .bInterfaceProtocol = 0, .driver_info = UVC_QUIRK_PROBE_MINMAX },
Hello, That means the webcam will be functional at FC8 final release ? I'm not a programmer... ;-) Regards, Răzvan
Hope to help: According to Dell's site and official Windows drivers, the webcam for this Dell Inspiron 1520 seems to be manufactured by Creative Labs. Dell offers a Windows application for using the camera (live chat, etc.). This application is made by Creative Labs too. *If* the camera arrives to work, are there any particular recommendations for a specific easy-to-use application for actually using/testing such a webcam in Fedora (taking pictures, video chat, etc.) ? Thank you, Răzvan
Apparently the UVC driver isn't in the upstream Linux kernel yet, so we don't have it in Fedora. But this looks like a good resource: http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Webcams
Work is underway (lead by suse) to integrate the support for uvc camera's in the mainline kernel, in the mean you can download the out of tree driver here: http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/ Closing this with a resolution of upstream.