Internal Webcams in Laptops and Notebooks

ACER Aspire 3690(http://www.steptux.com/acer/aspire3690.html)	Novell/SuSE SLED 10
ACER Aspire 4270(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/AcerAspire4720)	Ubuntu 7.10 32bit
ACER Aspire 5634WLMi(http://paper0k.wordpress.com/2006/12/18/orbicam-finalmente-supportata/)	Ubuntu	Italian
ACER Aspire 5720(http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Acer_Aspire_5720)	Gentoo
ACER Aspire 5920(http://www.slacky.eu/wikislack/index.php?title=Acer_aspire_5920_slackware_11)	Slackware	Italian
ACER Aspire 5920g(http://www.phcn.ws/main/index.php?path=content/articles.php&contentid=321&PHCN=01f4b676cb2df64d6a62e730a9e3210er)	Slackware 12
ACER Aspire 5920G(http://www.init0.nl/acer5920.php)	Linux
ACER Aspire 7520(http://www.linuxmaker.com/linux/aspire-7520-mit-debian.html)	Debian Lenny	German
ACER Aspire 7720Z(http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Acer_Aspire_7720_Z)	Gentoo
ACER Aspire 9113(http://www.freewebs.com/gkiagia/linuxonaceraspire9113.htm)	Linux
ACER Aspire 9814WKMi(http://samuel.benoit.online.fr/en/opensuse-11.0-linux-acer-aspire-9814-wkmi-9800-series-kde-4)	KUbuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft, 7.04, Novell/SuSE 11.0 AMD64 (x86_64)
ACER Aspire One ZG5 Linux(http://frlinux.net/english/?section=acerone) *)	Linpus
ACER Aspire One ZG5 Linux(http://frlinux.net/?section=portables&article=224) *)	Linpus	French
ACER Extensa 5620(http://www.linuxlaptopwiki.net/wiki/Acer_Extensa_5620)	Debian Lenny
Apple Macbook Pro 15'' [2006](http://blogs.gnome.org/view/rbultje/2006/07)	Ubuntu
ASUS A3827NLP(http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~shuber/misc-asusnb.php)	Gentoo
ASUS A6T(http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/Hardware/Notebook/AsusA6t)	Ubuntu 6.10	Italian
ASUS A6000(http://hamacker.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/webcam-syntek-semicon-dc-1125-driver-no-ubuntu-feisty/)	Ubuntu 7.10	Portuguese
ASUS A8Js(http://www.rothlaender.net/)	Gentoo
ASUS EeePC(http://unicap-imaging.org/unicap_eeepc.htm)	Xandros
ASUS EeePC 701(http://www.3dnews.ru/mobile/asus_eee_pc_701/)	Linux	Russian
ASUS F2JE(http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/asus_f2je/asus_f2je.html)	Fedora 7
ASUS F3JC(http://gquintana.free.fr/laptop/asus_f3jc/kubuntu-6.10.html)	KUbuntu 6.10
ASUS G1(http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Asus_G1)	Gentoo
ASUS G1(http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=410792&highlight=Syntek)	Ubuntu
ASUS G1(http://zockertown.de/s9y/index.php?/plugin/tag/asus+g1)	LinuxMint 3.0	German
ASUS Z53Jr (aka F3Jr)(http://terenzioberni.blogspot.com/2008/04/ubuntu-804-hardy-heron-on-asus-z53jr.html)	Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10, 8.04
Bullman V8 CENDUO 15+ (or also IFL90)(http://www.fell.it/2007/10/04/debian-on-bullman-v-klasse-8/)	Debian Lenny
DELL Inspiron 1520(http://www.intilinux.com/howto/395/abilitare-la-webcam-integrata-del-notebook-dell-ispiron-1520-con-linux/)	Linux	Italian
DELL Inspiron 1720(http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/dell_inspiron_1720)	Ubuntu	French
DELL Latitude D600(http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/laptop/)	RedHat
DELL Inspiron XPS M1710(http://notebookitalia.it/guida-allinstallazione-di-suse-10.1-linux-su-dell-xps-m1710-con-xgl.html)	Novell/SuSE 10.1	Italian
DELL Vostro 1700(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InstallingUbuntuOnADellVostro1700)	Ubuntu 7.10
Fujitsu-Siemens Celsius H-250(http://www.ubuntufreunde.de/forum/1908/ubuntu_7_10_gutsy_gibbon_auf_fujitsu_siemens_celsius_h250_installieren.html)	Ubuntu 7.10	German
HP Pavilion DV 2000(http://dollarunderscore.wordpress.com/2006/10/18/how-to-get-the-webcam-on-the-hp-dv2000-working/)	Linux
HP Pavilion DV 6057EA(http://www.au-79.de/dv6057ea)	Debian 3.1	German
HP Pavilion DV 6162EA(http://wiki.eagle-usb.org/wakka.php?wiki=InstallLaptopHpDv6162)	Mandriva (Mandrake) 2007.0
HP Pavilion DV 6162EA(http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/Hardware/Notebook/HpPavilionDV6162EA)	KUbuntu 7.04	Italian
HP Pavilion DV 6258SE(http://facorread.150m.com/gentoohp.html)	Gentoo
HP Pavilion DV 6330EA(http://www.squad17.org/node/2)	Debian
HP Pavilion DV 6567CL(http://arrrr.com/dv6567cl.shtml)	Debian Lenny
HP Pavilion DV 9565EG(http://de.opensuse.org/HKL/Laptop/HP_Pavilion_dv9565eg)	Novell/SuSE 10.3	German
HP Pavilion DV 9627CL(http://dmartin.org/content/ubuntu-linux-hp-dv9627cl)	Ubuntu
IBM ThinkPad X300(http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Debian_%28stable%29_on_an_X300)	Debian Etch
Lenovo 3000 N200(http://blog.slyon.de/?p=122)	Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon	German
MSI Wind U100(http://quaggaspace.org/doku.php/linux:debian_on_msi_wind)	Debian Lenny
MSI Wind U100 (see Medion Akoya)(http://www.linux-magazin.de/content/view/full/24719)	Linux	German
Packard Bell EasyNote XS (aka Via Nanobook)(http://data.plaintext.cc/nanobook/)	Debian 4.0r1
Sony VAIO PCG-C1 (PictureBook)	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-C1 (PictureBook)(http://asgardsrealm.net/linux/livec1vn/)	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-C1 (PictureBook)(http://gentoo-wiki.com/Sony_Picturebook)	Gentoo
Sony VAIO PCG-C1F (PictureBook)(http://www.remote.org/jochen/projects/vaio/)	RedHat
Sony VAIO PCG-C1F (PictureBook)	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-C1MGP(http://www.cc-c.de/german/linux/linux_c1mgp.php)	XUbuntu	German
Sony VAIO PCG-C1MHP (PictureBook)(http://silicon-verl.de/home/flo/software/c1mhp/)	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-C1MHP (PictureBook)(http://kryz.org/vaio.html)	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-C1MHP (PictureBook)(http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~jb/vaio/c1mhp-linux.html)	RedHat 9.0
Sony VAIO PCG-C1MRX/MV (PictureBook)(http://bruce.howard.org/articles/pcg-c1mrx/index.html)	RedHat
Sony VAIO PCG-C1MZX (PictureBook)(http://groebert.org/felix/c1mzx/)	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-C1MV (PictureBook)	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-C1MVP/M (PictureBook)	FreeBSD 5.3
Sony VAIO PCG-C1V (PictureBook)	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VE (PictureBook)(http://www.anti-particle.com/c1ve.shtml)	Mandriva (Mandrake)
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VE (PictureBook)(http://www.holtmann.org/linux/c1ve/)	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VE (PictureBook)	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VE (PictureBook)(http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/~mma29/c1/)	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VE (PictureBook)(http://www.df7cb.de/projects/c1ve/)	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VE (PictureBook)	OpenBSD 3.0
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VE (PictureBook)	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VE (PictureBook)	FreeBSD, Slackware 7.1
Sony VAIO PCG-C1V(E/N) (PictureBook)(http://www.stack.nl/~marcelw/)	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VFK (PictureBook)(http://www.simula.no/~aasmundo/sider/sony_vaio.shtml)	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VFK (PictureBook)(http://www.mcooper.demon.co.uk/unix/linux/picturebook/)	Gentoo
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VG (PictureBook)	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VJ (PictureBook)	Kondara Linux	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VJ (PictureBook)(http://homepage2.nifty.com/multi_7/c1_install.html)	Vine Linux	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VJ (PictureBook)(http://www.mars.dti.ne.jp/~jun1m/Linux/)	Slackware 7.1, RedHat 7J, Holon Linux 2.0	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VJ (PictureBook)(http://suken.jp/~tet/FreeBSD/VAIO_C1VJ/4.6-R_install.rhtml)	FreeBSD 4.6	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VJ (PictureBook)	FreeBSD 4.2	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VJ/BP (PictureBook)(https://hardware.expr42.net/laptop/pcg-c1vj_bp)	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VM (PictureBook)(http://sol4.net/linux/pb-index.shtml)	Slackware 8.0
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VN (PictureBook)	Mandriva (Mandrake) 7.2
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VN (PictureBook)(http://www.heiming.de/htmldocs/Sony-Picturebook1.html)	Novell/SuSE 7.0	German
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VN (PictureBook)(http://boynton.com/crusoe_picturebook.html)	Mandriva (Mandrake) 7.2
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VN (PictureBook)	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VN (PictureBook)(http://www.stevebarr.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/barrst/goto.pl?c1vnsol)	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VRX/K (PictureBook)	Debian Sarge
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VRX/K (PictureBook)	Gentoo
Sony VAIO PCG-C1X (PictureBook)	BeOS
Sony VAIO PCG-C1X (PictureBook)	Novell/SuSE
Sony VAIO PCG-C1XD (PictureBook)	Mandriva (Mandrake) 7.0
Sony VAIO PCG-C1XD(S) (PictureBook)(http://www.tgds.net/vaio.html)	RedHat 8.0, Fedora Core 7
Sony VAIO PCG-C1XD (PictureBook)	RedHat 7.1
Sony VAIO PCG-C1XD (PictureBook)	OpenBSD
Sony VAIO PCG-C1XD (PictureBook)	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-C1XD/XS (PictureBook)(http://www.geocities.com/stephenjohnhill/Picturebook_C1XD.html)	RedHat 6.2
Sony VAIO PCG-C1XF (PictureBook)(http://bruce.howard.org/articles/pcg-c1xf/index.html)	RedHat 7.2
Sony VAIO PCG-C1XS (PictureBook)	RedHat 6.1
Sony VAIO PCG-C1XS (PictureBook)	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-C1XS (PictureBook)(http://www.linuxsavvy.com/staff/jgotts/vaio-pcg-c1xs.html)	RedHat
Sony VAIO PCG-C1XS (PictureBook)(http://www.hgriggs.com/sony_c1xs.html)	Slackware 9.0
Sony VAIO PCG-C1XS (PictureBook)	OpenBSD 2.8, 2.9
Sony VAIO PCG-V1XS (PictureBook)(http://samba.org/picturebook/)	Linux
Sony VAIO VGN-AR21B(http://www.arakhne.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=26)	Ubuntu
Sony VAIO VGN-AR61ZU(http://tuxmobil.de/sony_vgn_ar61zu_debian_linux_installation.html)	Debian Lenny AMD64 (x86_64)	German
Sony VAIO VGN-CR21E(http://lkcl.net/reports/sony.vaio.vgn-cr21e.html)	Debian Lenny AMD64 (x86_64)
Sony VAIO VGN-FW235J(http://mg.slackwarebrasil.org/dig/vgnfw235j.html)	Linux
Sony VAIO VGN-FZ31E(http://inshame.blogspot.com/2008/06/ubuntu-hardy-heron-on-sony-vaio-vgn.html)	Ubuntu Hardy Heron
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ1XP(http://avilella.googlepages.com/vaiosz)	Ubuntu Dapper Drake
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ3(http://linuxsonyvaio.wetpaint.com/)	Ubuntu 7.04 AMD64 (x86_64)
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ5XWN/C(http://www.linux-user.de/ausgabe/2007/12/036-sony-vaio/index.html) [PRINT]	Linux	German
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ6(http://www.nepherte.be/arch-linux-on-a-sony-vaio-sz-6/)	ARCHlinux
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ61 MN/B(http://www.land-of-kain.de/docs/sony_vaio_sz61_mnb/)	Ubuntu
Zepto zNote 6625WD(http://atlas.hasselbalch.com/znote6625wd/)	Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10

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Linux Drivers for Built-In Laptop and Notebook Webcams

• Ali M560x Linux Driver Project(http://sourceforge.net/projects/m560x-driver/)The aim of this project is to create or obtain a working Linux driver for the Ali M5603C webcam chipset, see also M5603c_info with description of initialization and test-program, and variants of this chipset such as the M5602.
• Sony PCG-V1XS Picturebook Camera Capture Program(http://samba.org/picturebook/)
• Linux UVC driver and tools(http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/) for Logitech Quickcam USB and other models (e.g. with patch for Apple iSight(http://people.freedesktop.org/~rbultje/)).
• Built-in iSight Howto, Intel Mac ( iMac, Macbook )(http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=225621)
• Syntek Semicon DC-1125 (174f:a311) Camera Driver Project(http://syntekdriver.sourceforge.net/)
• stk11xx, add a new webcam driver(http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/24/148) for Syntek based webcams (kernel patch)
• Ricoh R5U870 Webcam Driver for Linux(http://wiki.mediati.org/R5u870) (Sony VAIO SZ, UX, some AR and some FE series)
• The Sony Vaio PictureBook Motion Eye Camera Driver - meye(http://popies.net/meye/) enables the use of video4linux compatible applications with the Motion Eye camera. This driver requires the Sony Vaio Programmable I/O Control Device driver (which can be found in the "Character drivers" section of the kernel configuration utility) to be compiled and installed (using its "camera=1" parameter).
• PictureBook Motion Eye Camera Driver for Linux(http://spop.free.fr/meye/)
• v4l driver for the Sony R-Engine MPEG2 encoder/decoder (aka Fujitsu's MB86393)(http://sourceforge.net/projects/r-engine). The Sony R-Engine MPEG2 encoder/decoder is found in the more recent Sony Vaio Picturebooks (model PCG-C1M* and newer).
• Reality Engine (Motion Eye II) driver project(http://r-engine.sourceforge.net/)
• EasyCam2(http://blognux.free.fr/sources/EasyCam2/) is software for an automated webcam installation. Thanks to the autodetection it will install the needed driver for your webcam.

External Webcams (for Laptops and Notebooks)

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Linux Drivers for External Laptop and Notebook Webcams

• Philips USB Webcam Driver for Linux - PWC(http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/)
• Philips USB Webcam Driver for Linux - PWC (deprecated)(http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/)
• Gspca/Spca5xx, Spca5xx-LE, Zr364xx WebCams Driver(http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html)
• drivers for webcams made by Creative(http://opensource.creative.com/webcam.html)
• Linux UVC driver and tools(http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/) for Logitech Quickcam USB and other models.
• linux uvc(http://mcentral.de/wiki/index.php5/Linux-uvc) - (similar like the linux-uvc project but based on em28xx code) changes have been adapted to the official uvcvideo driver to support Empiatech webcams.
• Linux driver for the QuickCam Express and other QuickCam-related and QuickCam-compatible USB web cameras(http://qce-ga.sourceforge.net/)

Linux Applications for WebCams

• Want to keep an eye on what's going on in your home or office when you're not there?(http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/02/16/1752232) You can turn a Linux box into a motion detector by using an old webcam and Motion -- software for monitoring a Video4Linux device.
• ZoneMinder(http://www.zoneminder.com/) is a set of applications which together provides a complete surveillance solution allowing capture, analysis, recording and monitoring of any cctv cameras attached to a Linux based machine. It is designed to run on distributions which support the Video For Linux (V4L) interface and has been tested with video cameras attached to BTTV cards, various USB cameras and IP network cameras.
• Here is a walk through the start of building a camera application using gstreamer to access the Nokia N800 device's Webcam(http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-lob800-2.html?S_TACT=105AGX03&S_CMP=ART).
• UVCView(http://www.nurs.or.jp/~ogochan/hack/uvcview.html) is a simple USB video camera viewer.