The Syntek Webcam of my laptop too worked in Ubuntu Feisty. As i promised in my previous post, I’m writing how I could make my webcam work. Could do that by installing a subversion of the driver that’s currently being developed. It’ll work only for newer kernels.

I got the details from here. It’s actually a page in French. Thanks to Google translator you can get the translated page from here.

Things i had to do:

1. Install Subversion Manager:

$ sudo apt-get install subversion

2. Download the source

$ mkdir syntek

$ cd syntek

$ svn co https://syntekdriver.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/syntekdriver/trunk/driver

3. Download the special Makefile

$cd driver

$ wget http://bookeldor-net.info/merdier/Makefile-syntekdriver

4. Compile and install the driver.

$ make -f Makefile-syntekdriver

$ sudo make -f Makefile-syntekdriver install

5. Change the driver

$ sudo modprobe stk11xx

And when i started the camaroma it worked. . There was a problem with the colour had to add an Effect called ‘Color Correction’ to make the colours alright.