Thanks Dmitri, I've contacted him.
Dmitri wrote:
Quoting Bret Comstock Waldow <bwaldow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Linux newbie (mostly) running SuSE 7.3 (kernel 2.4.10) on an IBM
Thinkpad T21 with the Ultracam USB camera. I found out the 2.4.10
kernel didn't include a module for the ultracam, but later versions do,
so I've installed the 2.4.16 kernel from SuSE's ftp site, and so far
that seems to be working.
Now, motv appears, but the picture is unusable - I see a rolling or
flickering matrix of images, alternating black and white backgrounds
like a checkerboard, with an apparent image of my head in each.
This seems to be a driver issue, not a v4l. As I see it, the stream
decoder is not working properly. Email the author of the driver for help
(see http://www.linux-usb.org/devices.html ). I can not help you beyond
that advice, I never even saw this camera...
Dmitri
