Comment 3 for bug 129463

The gspca webcam drivers work, at least for the Orbicam on my Acer 3012WTMi, at a basic level -- can get sensor output via v4l programs and mplayer, but no adjustment of sensor capture rate, brightness, colour, etc.

My camera reports a vendorID/productID of 046d:0896.

This works with kernel 2.6.20, with a compiled gspca-source package. I recommend using the module-assistant program (aptitude install gspca-source, then run module-assistant and select gspca from the package list).

You can test out the webcam with mplayer:

mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420 -vc rawi420 -vo xv

More information on currently supported cameras here:
http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html