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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37 7. Documentation & References
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51 To compile the driver you need :
52 Kernel 2.6.18 or higher
59 To compile the documentation you need :
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69 To build the kernel module ("driver") :
71 (This will create the kernel object file called "microdia.ko".)
75 To build the documentation :
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83 To load the driver, follow these steps (as root) :
85 # modprobe compat-ioctl32 // Only required for 64-bit Linux OS
88 To test the driver with a V4L2 compliant application, try mplayer :
89 $ mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:fps=25:device=/dev/video0 -vo x11
90 $ mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:fps=25:device=/dev/video0 -vo xv
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96 $ strip -g microdia.ko
98 # cp microdia.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/media/video/usbvideo/
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105 We recommend to use v4l2ucp to improve image quality.
106 http://sourceforge.net/projects/v4l2ucp/
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112 The kernel module is currently under active development.
114 Currently the driver supports following webcam models :
124 The full list can be found here :
125 http://groups.google.com/group/microdia/web/project-status
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131 To request support, please contact us on Microdia Mailing List :
132 https://groups.google.com/group/microdia/
133 microdia@googlegroups.com
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136 8. More Documentation & References
138 All documentation & references for microdia webcam driver can be found at
139 http://groups.google.com/group/microdia/web
141 Latest version of this driver is usually available at the following location
142 http://repo.or.cz/w/microdia.git
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147 Microdia USB 2.0 Webcam Driver is distributed under the GPL licence version 2
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154 The Microdia Linux driver has no connection to "MICRODIA Ltd.". They are not
155 responsible for anything we do or our driver does and we are not responsible
156 for their actions or their hardware.