Chicony USB 2.0 Camera

In my Ubuntu 8.04 the kernel is 2.6.24-16-generic please update your system and retry, so please open a terminal and type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type the password, then press enter.

Hope this helps

did the 3 commands above, computer updated nothing (except lists ofcourse)

Please open a terminal copy and paste the result of:

dpkg -l | grep -i linux-image

thank you

sudo dpkg -l | grep -i linux-image

ii linux-image-2.6.22-14-generic 2.6.22-14.52 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.22 on x86/x86_64
ii linux-image-2.6.24-16-generic 2.6.24-16.30 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.24 on x86/x86_64
ii linux-image-generic 2.6.24.16.18 Generic Linux kernel image
ii virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.22-14-generic 6 virtualbox-ose modules for linux-image-2.6.22-14-generic

You have more than one kernel and you must start Ubuntu from the latest kernel.

Press ESC when you see the Grub row then try to start with latest kernel the first Grub menu row

linux-image-2.6.24-16-generic 2.6.24-16.30

then retry my gspca install procedure.

Hope this helps

got all the way to: sudo make
and it spit back a few errors
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michalski@NARLOTO:/usr/src/modules/gspca$ sudo make
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/modules/gspca CC=cc modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-16-generic'
scripts/Makefile.build:46: *** CFLAGS was changed in "/usr/src/modules/gspca/Makefile". Fix it to use EXTRA_CFLAGS. Stop.
make[1]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/gspca] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-16-generic'
make: *** [default] Error 2

.....?

Yes ok with Ubuntu 8.04 hardy updates i get same errors as yours please try download and compile from this file (from the author of gspca kernel modules):
Open a terminal and type:
cd /usr/src/
wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/gspcav1-20071224.tar.gz
tar xvzf gspcav1-20071224.tar.gz
cd gspcav1-20071224/
make
sudo make install

Hope this helps

Better
Yes ok with Ubuntu 8.04 hardy updates i get same errors as yours please try download and compile from this file (from the author of gspca kernel modules): http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/gspcav1-20071224.tar.gz

So please open a terminal and type:

cd /usr/src/
wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/gspcav1-20071224.tar.gz
tar xvzf gspcav1-20071224.tar.gz
cd gspcav1-20071224/
make
sudo make install

Hope this helps

Could not connect to video device (/dev/video0) Please check connection... :-/ ?

installation worked
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camorama itself does not work, gives same error as Michal T mentioned
however, cheese (the program) works excellently and so does my amsn.

thanks marcobra, I can live with 1 app not working :)

(sorry it took so long for me to reply)

Hello!
I have the same problem.
lsusb says this:

Bus 007 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 006 Device 003: ID 04f2:b008 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0930:0508 Toshiba Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

When i type dpkg -l | grep -i linux-image it says:

ii linux-image-2.6.24-16-generic 2.6.24-16.30 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.24 on x86
ii linux-image-2.6.24-17-generic 2.6.24-17.31 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.24 on x86
ii linux-image-generic 2.6.24.17.19 Generic Linux kernel image

I log in on the with the newest kernel. I followed directions marcobra wrote but when i click camorama it stil says: Could not connect to video device (/dev/video0)

Any help?

I forgot to mention that i can do what marcobra wrote only through root (when i write sudo -i before typing and installing what marcobra wrote) otherwise it says permission denied.

Ok. After i installed bunch of codecs for 8.04 this described procedure works.
Thank you marcobra!