Sony Vaio VGN-FZ29VN meets Ubuntu Jaunty – the webcam
ok, since switching to ubuntu on my laptop, i hadn’t been able to get my built in Ricoh webcam to work.
now 2 days ago, i upgraded to Ubuntu Jaunty and wanted to address this issue again. no luck at first site, but not wanting to give up, i started looking around and found the driver that did the trick!
ahixon / r5u87x / overview — bitbucket.org.
people who are using intrepid, should be able to find the answers here:
well, it did the trick… meaning, the webcam is found now and i can play with it in “Cheese”… however, when trying to use it in aMsn or Skype, the image it renders is only a small portion of what it should show and it shows “double vision”. Since i suspect that it is not a 3D visualisation mode 
, i am guessing there is still something off.
Actually, this was to be expected, since the driver r5u87x is still in the process of being fine tuned and bugs are not abnormal in this stage.
I will keep you posted if i should get it working.