It's not a new problem for me, from f-11 I use same method to make my laptop webcam works, I found it long back after too much google and saved those steps as mail drafts.(Without those steps, cheese not detect my laptop webcam)
$ su
# yum install hgsvn
# yum install libusb-devel
# exit
$ hg clone http://bitbucket.org/ahixon/r5u87x/
$ cd r5u87x
$ make
$ make rules
$ su
# make install
# ./loader
# modprobe -r uvcvideo
# modprobe uvcvideo
# exit
According to my understanding r5u87x is my webcam driver which not install default in fedora, modprobe first remove old module of uvcvideo and update latest one (after changed), Please correct me if I am wrong. But I really wanted to know why those stuff is not available as default.
Some More info about kernel which I am using, WebCam manufacture, lsusb output
#uname -r
3.3.0-1.fc17.i686.PAE
# lsusb
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05ca:1839 Ricoh Co., Ltd Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC6 [R5U870]
Bus 002 Device 028: ID 12d1:1436 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
$ su
# yum install hgsvn
# yum install libusb-devel
# exit
$ hg clone http://bitbucket.org/ahixon/r5u87x/
$ cd r5u87x
$ make
$ make rules
$ su
# make install
# ./loader
# modprobe -r uvcvideo
# modprobe uvcvideo
# exit
According to my understanding r5u87x is my webcam driver which not install default in fedora, modprobe first remove old module of uvcvideo and update latest one (after changed), Please correct me if I am wrong. But I really wanted to know why those stuff is not available as default.
Some More info about kernel which I am using, WebCam manufacture, lsusb output
#uname -r
3.3.0-1.fc17.i686.PAE
# lsusb
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05ca:1839 Ricoh Co., Ltd Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC6 [R5U870]
Bus 002 Device 028: ID 12d1:1436 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
