Camera driver

[Pete Graner]

John Mahoney wrote:
> Hi,Have you guys considered including the following driver.  It supports
> most of the sony vio laptop web cams.  I have been compiling it from source
> since Ubuntu 8.04.  I am sure a lot of people do not take the time to do so
> and just say, "This sucks my web cam doesn't work."  Thanks for making all
> my other hardware run smooth, by the way.
> These are the directions I followed:
> 
> lsusb gives: 05ca:1839 Ricoh Co., Ltd Download the latest driver: svn co
> http://svn.mediati.org/svn/r5u870/trunk r5u870 cd r5u870 sudo apt-get
> install build-essential subversion make sudo make install Reboot the machine
> Thanks,
> John
> 
> 

Hi John,

Thanks for the pointer. Currently its hard to ascertain its upstream 
status. Looking thru the source it appears to be License compatible with 
Ubuntu.

I need to contact the author/maintainer to find out why its not upstream 
and if there are plans to do so.

Once we get some more info we'll be able to make a decision if we 
can/will carry it.

Stay tuned to the list for more info.

~pete

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