January 3, 2008
17:43
As mentioned previously, I have been unable to get my built in webcam working on my AR11S laptop and it was starting to annoy me. Thankfully halex has recently purchased a new VAIO laptop which has a similar camera and uses the same driver - a Ricoh R5U870. He worked out which driver it needed and managed to get it working and used cheese to prove it.
More details on the driver with source and installation instructions can be found here. Hopefully the maintainers of the drivers:webcam repository could find the time to create an rpm for it and add it to the repo (nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more). I will in the mean time play around and try and create a package for it, mind you I've never created a kernel module package so it could take me a bit of time to get it right
Thanks again go to halex for this.