1 Microdia USB 2.0 Webcam Driver
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4 This Driver is essentially a fork of the Syntek Webcam drivers for Linux
5 by Nicolas Vivien, specifically to accomodate SN9C20x chipset based Webcams.
7 The driver currently supports the latest version of Video For Linux i.e
8 V4L2. V4L1 is deprecated, and applications like Camorama that use only V4L1 will
11 This driver currently supports Skype v2.x, Ekiga v2.x & even aMSN
14 The Microdia USB 2.0 Webcam Driver for SN9C20x chipset based Webcams is
15 currently under development. Using this driver can result in damage.
16 Use this driver only if you know what you are doing.
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39 8. Documentation & References
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53 To compile the driver you need :
54 Kernel 2.6.18 or higher
61 To compile the documentation you need :
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69 There are packages for various distributions available here:
70 http://repo.or.cz/w/pkgmicrodia.git
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78 To build the kernel module ("driver") :
80 (This will create the kernel object file called "microdia.ko".)
84 To build the documentation :
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92 To load the driver, follow these steps (as root) :
94 # modprobe compat-ioctl32 // Only required for 64-bit Linux OS
97 To test the driver with a V4L2 compliant application, try mplayer :
98 $ mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:fps=25:device=/dev/video0 -vo x11
99 $ mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:fps=25:device=/dev/video0 -vo xv
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105 $ strip -g microdia.ko
107 # cp microdia.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/media/video/usbvideo/
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114 We recommend to use v4l2ucp to improve image quality.
115 http://sourceforge.net/projects/v4l2ucp/
117 We also develop our own gui, available here:
118 http://repo.or.cz/r/guimicrodia.git
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124 The kernel module is currently under active development.
126 Currently the driver supports following webcam models :
136 The full list can be found here :
137 http://groups.google.com/group/microdia/web/project-status
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143 To request support, please contact us on Microdia Mailing List :
144 https://groups.google.com/group/microdia/
145 microdia@googlegroups.com
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149 9. More Documentation & References
151 All documentation and references for microdia webcam driver can be found at
152 http://groups.google.com/group/microdia/web
154 Latest version of this driver is usually available at the following location
155 http://repo.or.cz/w/microdia.git
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161 Microdia USB 2.0 Webcam Driver is distributed under the GPL licence version 2
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168 The Microdia Linux driver has no connection to "MICRODIA Ltd.". They are not
169 responsible for anything we do or our driver does and we are not responsible
170 for their actions or their hardware.