Comment 102 for bug 120434

on my vaio tgz..., the webcam consistently works ONLY after reboot,
never upon powering on.
this is so since 8.04, thru recently installed 10.04:-(
any ideas?

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Xavi Ivars <email address hidden> wrote:
> David, I installed the ppa and the package, and now my webcam works!
> I've got a vaio FE41S, with a webcam 05ca:1836 (VCC4), and it didn't
> work previously with Lucid, and now it does. Thanks!
>
> --
> [needs-packaging] Ricoh R5U87x Webcam userland tools
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120434
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> Status in Ricoh R5U87x: Triaged
> Status in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> The driver R5U870 is being replaced by a set of R5U87x userland tools that load the firmware for the uvcvideo supported webcams and make those work with  the standard driver.
>
> At this moment the WDM webcameras are only supported by the previous R5U870 module.
>
> The webcams supported by the userland tools are marked as UVC by this list:
>
> http://www.bitbucket.org/ahixon/r5u87x/src/881dbd07a263/docs/model_matrix.txt
>
> Originally this bug report was intended to package the R5U870 module, but at this moment this wouldn't be the best path to follow, as the package really needed is the R5U87x userland tools available here:
>
> http://www.bitbucket.org/ahixon/r5u87x/
>
> For the people in need of the original module please go to the bug #219252
>
> This driver is used in Sony Vaio laptops integrated webcams, among others.
>
> Ubuntu should load this driver whenever the supported devices are present
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