(***) sortof works, really bad cams, do not buy!Īlso see here for cams which are supported by gspca and their testing status with the new cleaned up gspcav2. (**) works, but has jpeg compression artifacts when used in bright daylight (*) works, but does not work well in low light conditions I currently test with the following webcams: This requires packaging libv4l for v4l1 emulation and format conversion and making modifications to webcam using applications so that they use libv4l. This may require temporarily carrying kernel patches if drivers are clearly moving upstream, but not there yet in time for release. Out of the box working hardware makes for happy end users and good reviews.

The most popular v4l applications in Fedora have all been patched to use libv4l: amsn, camE, camstream, cheese (gstreamer), ekiga (ptlib), gyachi, xawtv and ucview (unicap)

The plan is to work together with the various upstreams to port any remaining standalone usb webcam drivers to gspca subdrivers, this is a process which will continue after F-10's release.Ģ) Has been fixed by creating a utility library which contains all the conversion stuff and v4l1 compatibility functions so that applications can easily be modified to work properly with v4l2 webcams,įor more info on his library called libv4l, see: People behind the micromedia driver for the quite popular sonix sn9c20x based cams, to port their driver to a gspca subdriver and move the cam specific format decoding to userspace as was done with all the gspca decoding routines. This vastly improves the amount of supported webcams in 2.6.27. Even v4l2 apps often don't work with v4l2 webcam's as the webcams often have camspecific (compressed) pixelformats and most applications don't support all these,ġ) Has been largely fixed by working together with gspca upstream to get gspcav2 cleaned up and merged, Linus has merged gspcav2 (through the v4l-dvb subsystem) for 2.6.27, Those drivers that are in the mainline kernel are often v4l2 while many applications will only work with v4l1.

The drivers are not in the mainline kernel.Webcams not working even though there are Linux drivers has 2 causes: Currently many webcams do not work with Fedora out of the box even though Linux driver exist for them, the intent is to fix this.

Typhoon easycam 1.3 driver