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#1

hi all:

i got opensuse 13.1 installed on an old sony laptop. it works fine so far but for some reasons i could not get the on-board webcam to work. here is the hardware profile for the webcam:

“Bus 003 Device 002: ID 054c:0107 Sony Corp. VCC-U01 Visual Communication Camera”

i know it is very old, probaly the drive isn’t “r5u870” but i would like to see it working. i followed the following links and installed three packages (firmware, default and desktop):

https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:Web_cameras
http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=r5u870&baseproject=openSUSE%3A12.1&lang=en&include_home=true&exclude_debug=true

thanks for help

_dave

#2

I’ve had a quick search of this chipset, and almost certain that no support exists for this device.

http://www.302found.com/linux_usb_video/

054c:0107   Sony   MOTION EYE VCC-U01   Integrate Webcam in Sony PGC-TRx   not supported

FWIW, there were a couple of Sony devices supported via the gspca driver, but not for your particular chipset.