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HP DV6000 series laptop and Ricoh USB webcam [SOLVED]

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HP DV6000 series laptop and Ricoh USB webcam [SOLVED]

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Post by unl0cker » Wed Apr 04, 2007 9:56 pm

Hi there guys,


I just got myself a DV6174 (RG361) laptop by HP. Awesome design, C2D 1.6 2 GB RAM
120HD, Intel wifi a/b/g. This lappy comes with a buildin USB webcam made by Ricoh.

I'm having a really hard time to find a driver for it. Some info is listed bellow

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller AHCI (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce Go 7400 (rev a1)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller
07:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0832
07:05.1 Class 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
07:05.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)
07:05.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)
07:05.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)
lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05ca:1870 Ricoh Co., Ltd <-- here is the webcam

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2.6.20-gentoo-r3

Ricoh webpage for the webcam product:

http://www.ricoh.com/LSI/product_pcif/usb/5u870_v001/


I really apreciate any help. Does anyone ever got one of this to work under linux?


Thanks in advance,

UnL0CkER
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Found a driver, but can't compile

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Post by unl0cker » Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:13 pm

After I post this I've found a driver for the webcam, aparently the only one on the net.

http://lsb.blogdns.net/ry5u870/

But I get the following error when making:
$ make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.20-gentoo-r3/build M=/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1 V=0 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.20-gentoo-r3'
CC [M] /home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/r5u870_md.o
CC [M] /home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/usbcam.o
/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/usbcam.c: In function 'usbcam_videobuf_prepare':
/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/usbcam.c:689: error: 'PAGE_KERNEL' undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/usbcam.c:689: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/usbcam.c:689: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[2]: *** [/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/usbcam.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.20-gentoo-r3'
make: *** [all] Error 2
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Post by widan » Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:25 am

Edit usbcam.c and add this line to the includes at the beginning:

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#include <linux/mm.h>
It should look like that:

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...
#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
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Post by unl0cker » Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:53 pm

Thanks widan!

The module builds, but with a lot of warnings as follow:
[root@prometheus] (.222 MB) [/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1] $ make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.20-gentoo-r3/build M=/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1 V=0 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.20-gentoo-r3'
CC [M] /home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/r5u870_md.o
CC [M] /home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/usbcam.o
LD [M] /home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/r5u870.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 1 modules
WARNING: "videobuf_mmap_free" [/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "videobuf_mmap_mapper" [/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "video_usercopy" [/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "videobuf_streamon" [/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "videobuf_iolock" [/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "video_register_device" [/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "videobuf_read_one" [/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "videobuf_qbuf" [/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "video_unregister_device" [/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "videobuf_querybuf" [/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "videobuf_dma_unmap" [/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "video_devdata" [/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "videobuf_queue_init" [/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "v4l2_video_std_construct" [/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "videobuf_dqbuf" [/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "videobuf_waiton" [/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "videobuf_reqbufs" [/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "videobuf_dma_free" [/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "videobuf_poll_stream" [/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "videobuf_streamoff" [/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/r5u870.ko] undefined!
CC /home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/r5u870.mod.o
LD [M] /home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1/r5u870.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.20-gentoo-r3'
When I try to load:
[root@prometheus] (.407 MB) [/home/unl0cker/Desktop/r5u870-0.9.1] $ modprobe r5u870
FATAL: Error inserting r5u870 (/lib/modules/2.6.20-gentoo-r3/extra/r5u870.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

And dmesg:
r5u870: Unknown symbol videobuf_streamoff
r5u870: Unknown symbol videobuf_poll_stream
r5u870: Unknown symbol videobuf_dma_free
r5u870: Unknown symbol videobuf_reqbufs
r5u870: Unknown symbol videobuf_waiton
r5u870: Unknown symbol videobuf_dqbuf
r5u870: Unknown symbol v4l2_video_std_construct
r5u870: Unknown symbol videobuf_queue_init
r5u870: Unknown symbol video_devdata
r5u870: Unknown symbol videobuf_dma_unmap
r5u870: Unknown symbol videobuf_querybuf
r5u870: Unknown symbol video_unregister_device
r5u870: Unknown symbol videobuf_qbuf
r5u870: Unknown symbol videobuf_read_one
r5u870: Unknown symbol video_register_device
r5u870: Unknown symbol videobuf_iolock
r5u870: Unknown symbol videobuf_streamon
r5u870: Unknown symbol video_usercopy
r5u870: Unknown symbol videobuf_mmap_mapper
r5u870: Unknown symbol videobuf_mmap_free
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Post by widan » Fri Apr 06, 2007 10:31 am

You first need to have Video for Linux support in the kernel. Look at this page for information on installing a webcam.
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Post by unl0cker » Fri Apr 06, 2007 3:57 pm

Thanks again widan!!!


With the apropriate video settings inserted into the kernel works like a charm. And editing usbcam.c is not even needed.

I've updated the webcam howto @ wiki

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_a_ ... 870_Webcam

Thanks again!


Cheers,

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Post by K0RETH » Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:58 pm

I followed the tuto.

Note that now the driver has become r5u870. It stille complain :

make -C /lib/modules/2.6.19-suspend2-r3-by-Koreth/build M=/home/koreth/r5u870-0.10.0 V=0 modules
make[1]: entrant dans le répertoire « /usr/src/linux-2.6.19-suspend2-r3 »
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 1 modules
WARNING: "videobuf_mmap_free" [/home/koreth/r5u870-0.10.0/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "videobuf_mmap_mapper" [/home/koreth/r5u870-0.10.0/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "videobuf_streamon" [/home/koreth/r5u870-0.10.0/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "videobuf_iolock" [/home/koreth/r5u870-0.10.0/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "videobuf_read_one" [/home/koreth/r5u870-0.10.0/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "videobuf_qbuf" [/home/koreth/r5u870-0.10.0/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "videobuf_querybuf" [/home/koreth/r5u870-0.10.0/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "videobuf_dma_unmap" [/home/koreth/r5u870-0.10.0/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "videobuf_queue_init" [/home/koreth/r5u870-0.10.0/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "videobuf_dqbuf" [/home/koreth/r5u870-0.10.0/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "videobuf_waiton" [/home/koreth/r5u870-0.10.0/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "videobuf_reqbufs" [/home/koreth/r5u870-0.10.0/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "videobuf_dma_free" [/home/koreth/r5u870-0.10.0/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "videobuf_poll_stream" [/home/koreth/r5u870-0.10.0/r5u870.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "videobuf_streamoff" [/home/koreth/r5u870-0.10.0/r5u870.ko] undefined!
CC /home/koreth/r5u870-0.10.0/r5u870.mod.o
LD [M] /home/koreth/r5u870-0.10.0/r5u870.ko
make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /usr/src/linux-2.6.19-suspend2-r3 »

My kernel configuration :
<*> Video For Linux
[ ] Enable Video For Linux API 1 (DEPRECATED)
[*] Enable Video For Linux API 1 compatible Layer
Video Capture Adapters --->
Radio Adapters --->
Digital Video Broadcasting Devices --->
< > DABUSB driver

And "Autoselect pertinent encoders/decoders and other helper chips" in the "Video Capture Adapters".

As you can see, the module video-buf is missing. What could i Do ?

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Post by optiluca » Sun Apr 22, 2007 10:32 am

I have exactly the same problem. The driver compiles. but won't load. Does anyone have a solution? My kernel config seems to be correct.

Thanks in advance

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Post by K0RETH » Sun Apr 22, 2007 10:42 am

I got one. Finally.

The module that wasn't present, video_buf, is hidden there :

Device Driver --> Multimedia Device --> Video Capture Adapters --> Virtual Video Driver.

I putted it in module, but I think you can also make is as built-in. Now, my camera work with Ekiga, when I select V4L2 mode.
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Post by optiluca » Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:45 pm

That worked, and the module loaded. However the webcam still doesn't seem to be recognized by Kopete (or by anything else for that matter). I also don't have a /dev/video0.

Does anyone have any suggestions??

Thanks for helping
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Post by K0RETH » Sun Apr 22, 2007 9:38 pm

What is your computer ?

My one is a VAIO FE41M so that may differ a little bit ...
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Post by optiluca » Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:56 am

I have an HP Pavilion dv9097ea (dv9000 series). Has anyone got the webcam working on this laptop?

Thanks in advance
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Post by TheCoop » Mon Apr 30, 2007 11:21 pm

works for me! Now to submit an ebuild...
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Post by pablolb » Tue May 01, 2007 5:32 pm

i too have a hp dv9000 (running kernel 2.6.20-gentoo-r6). the module compiled with no problmes, it inserts with no problems, i get the /dev/video0 & /dev/v4l/video0, but i can't seem to make it work (ekiga does not show v4l and mplayer just ouputs green). btw, i just tried the same driver on ubuntu, kernel 2.6.17 and it worked with ekiga . . . any suggestions?

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Post by TheCoop » Wed May 02, 2007 8:56 am

tried with xawtv?
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Post by Sochu » Sun May 20, 2007 12:09 pm

Hello I followed Yours advice, but I can't cope with one problem

Here's my problem:

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czarnuch r5u870-0.10.0 # make && make install
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.21.1/build M=/mnt/data/OS/r5u870-0.10.0 V=0 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.21.1'
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 1 modules
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.21.1'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.21.1/build M=/mnt/data/OS/r5u870-0.10.0 V=0 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.21.1'
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 1 modules
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.21.1'
make INSTALL_MOD_PATH= INSTALL_MOD_DIR=extra \
                -C /lib/modules/2.6.21.1/build M=/mnt/data/OS/r5u870-0.10.0 modules_install
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.21.1'
  INSTALL /mnt/data/OS/r5u870-0.10.0/r5u870.ko
  DEPMOD  2.6.21.1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.21.1'
install -m 0644 -o root -g root r5u870_1830.fw r5u870_1832.fw r5u870_1833.fw r5u870_1834.fw r5u870_1835.fw r5u870_1836.fw r5u870_1870_1.fw r5u870_1870.fw r5u870_1810.fw  /lib/firmware
install: target `/lib/firmware' is not a directory
make: *** [install] Error 1
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Post by TheCoop » Sun May 20, 2007 12:19 pm

create /lib/firmware?

btw, ive submitted an ebuild for the r5u870 driver: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176824
Just copy it into your portage local overlay & emerge until it gets put into the tree...
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Thanks ;).
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Post by T-O7 » Fri Jul 27, 2007 7:11 am

optiluca wrote:That worked, and the module loaded. However the webcam still doesn't seem to be recognized by Kopete (or by anything else for that matter). I also don't have a /dev/video0.

Does anyone have any suggestions??

Thanks for helping
Hi, did you find a sol'n to your problem? I'm having the same issue. The module seemed to install and load ok without any problems, but there is no device in the /dev section...
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Post by optiluca » Fri Jul 27, 2007 8:38 am

T-O7 wrote:
optiluca wrote:That worked, and the module loaded. However the webcam still doesn't seem to be recognized by Kopete (or by anything else for that matter). I also don't have a /dev/video0.

Does anyone have any suggestions??

Thanks for helping
Hi, did you find a sol'n to your problem? I'm having the same issue. The module seemed to install and load ok without any problems, but there is no device in the /dev section...
Nope no success... Does anyone else have any ideas??

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Post by xvision » Tue Sep 04, 2007 11:37 am

I'm running an HP dv6404 and am encountering the same problem. The driver make and make install didn't return any warnings or errors and it modprobes fine, but doesn't create a video device in /dev for me.

What is your output of lsusb? Oddly enough, mine does not show the webcam..

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freedom dev # lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
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Post by optiluca » Tue Sep 04, 2007 2:26 pm

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lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 03f0:171d Hewlett-Packard
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0c45:62c0 Microdia
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
I think the webcam is the Microdia device...

Does anyone have a clue of what's going on? :? :?:

Thanks in advance
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Post by ncgator84 » Wed Sep 19, 2007 10:04 pm

optiluca wrote:

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lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 03f0:171d Hewlett-Packard
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0c45:62c0 Microdia
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
I think the webcam is the Microdia device...

Does anyone have a clue [/code]of what's going on? :? :?:

Thanks in advance
mine was like this as well...
it is a sonix webcam.
I had to use linux-uvc

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 emerge -av linux-uvc
and use the sdl USE flags(don't know if that is required).

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emerge -DavN world

works with amsn-0.97_rc1 and ekiga so far.
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Post by optiluca » Thu Sep 20, 2007 5:21 pm

Tried that, loaded the module and the device is created. However Kopete simply displays a green screen, and the camera's led doesn't turn on... I'm pretty sure its the r5u870 i need..

Any ideas??
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Post by ncgator84 » Fri Sep 21, 2007 1:12 pm

optiluca wrote:Tried that, loaded the module and the device is created. However Kopete simply displays a green screen, and the camera's led doesn't turn on... I'm pretty sure its the r5u870 i need..

Any ideas??
Which laptop do you have?
I have a dv9000(dv9410 model)
my lsusb

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# lsusb 
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0c45:62c0 Microdia 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
and lspci

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 07:05.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)
Have you tried amsn or ekiga... these are the ONLY two programs so far that work for me. I haven't tryed Kopete, and would guess that if it doesn't support full v4l2 then it will not work.
I thought for awhile that my webcam was a Ricoh too, check this website out http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/

Update:
I tried kopete and it did not work.
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