Comment 34 for bug 310760

Just for anyone else tracking this issue, I had Etienne test the following:

1) sudo apt-get install linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-23-generic
2) create a file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ignore-17ef7802.fdi to look like:

<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="usb_device.vendor_id" int="6127">
      <match key="usb_device.product_id" int="18434">
        <merge key="info.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
      </match>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

3) reboot and test

linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-23-generic provides alsa-driver-1.0.16 and the .fdi file prevents hal from probing the device. Etienne provided the following feedback:

"It works perfectly well. At least, in the sense that we can get both the mic and the webcam working. Of course, the webcam do not work in application that relies on HAL (ie, Cheese), but in those that use ALSA/V4L directly (such as VLC), it work just fine indeed."