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Acer Orbicam (046d:0896) integrated webcam now supported by GSPCA
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This howto is how i went about getting the Acer Orbicam working under Ubuntu 6.10 on a Acer Aspire 5601AWLMi

To check if webcam is detected:
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lsusb

You should get output similar to this:
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Bus 005 Device 002: ID 046d:0896 Logitech, Inc.

As we have to compile the drivers, the prerequisites are:
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sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)

Get the source here: http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html

Go to the folder where you saved the source file and uncompress archive:
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tar zxvf gspcav1-20061216.tar.gz

Compile and Install the drivers:
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cd gspcav1-20061216/

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make

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sudo make install

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USE THESE DEBIAN PACKAGES AT YOUR OWN RISK
For Ubuntu 6.10 you can use the precompiled debian package: gspca modules for Linux (kernel 2.6.17-11-generic)

For Ubuntu 7.04 you can use the precompiled debian package: gspca modules for Linux (kernel 2.6.20-14-generic)

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The following here might work for some peoples setup, but for me it does not work and makes the image have a blue colour to it all and does not look natural.

Tune the gspca module loading
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sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/options

Add the following to the file:
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options gspca force_rgb=1

Save and Close.

Now to load the module:
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sudo modprobe gspca

Now to check the following device node is created:
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ls /dev/video*

You should get an output that looks similar to this:
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2007-01-01 16:14 /dev/video -> video0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 0 2007-01-01 16:14 /dev/video0

Now you are all done, and you can test the cam with Ekiga Softphonehere
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Posted on: 2007/1/2 2:27
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