Les VanBrunt

This webcam is sold under many names – mine is a Gigaware. This is what lsusb shows:

ID 093a:2468 Pixart Imaging, Inc. Easy Snap Snake Eye WebCam

Ubuntu 7.10 includes the gspca driver which is supposed to handle this webcam, but doesn’t. A minor change needs to be made to the driver source to make it work.

First, open up a terminal.

Next, unplug your webcam and make sure the gspca module is not loaded with this command:
sudo rmmod gspca

Now download the gspca source code and the tools to build it with these commands:
sudo apt-get install gspca-source
sudo apt-get install build-essential

This will place the source code into the /usr/src directory.

Next, we go to that directory and expand the source with these commands:
cd /usr/src
sudo tar xvjf gspca-source.tar

Now we will download a patch and apply it to the source:
cd modules/gspca/Pixart
sudo wget http://www.vanbrunt.com/pac207.patch
sudo patch -p0 < pac207.patch

Finally, we will build and install the modified driver:
cd ..
sudo ./gspca_build

And that, my friend, should do the trick! I recommend trying it with Camorama:
sudo apt-get install camorama

Enjoy!!