On the Lenovo s10-3t "reference platform," I'm not sure why the
netbook webcam isn't enabled by default, nor why it's missing from
testing in http://qa-reports.meego.com/1.2/Netbook/Acceptance/Pinetrail/
. (Note that camera functionality is tested for N900 handset:
http://qa-reports.meego.com/1.2/Handset/Acceptance/N900/1291 , but not
for the netbook, which seems to have far fewer tests:
http://qa-reports.meego.com/1.2/Netbook/Acceptance/Pinetrail/1284 ).

For meego-netbook-ia32-1.1.90.4.20110222.2.img [1], after looking
through the likely list of candidate drivers [2] for the Lenovo s10-3t
netbook, I settled upon the obvious one with the name "webcam" in it,
and it just works!
...............................
meegolem-110-~> sudo modprobe stkwebcam
meegolem-111-~> lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
stkwebcam              17097  0
serio_raw               3797  0
ath9k                  65616  0
ath9k_common           meego-netbook-ia32-1.1.90.4.20110222.2.img
 1977  1 ath9k
uvcvideo               50284  0
joydev                  8181  0
ath9k_hw              243231  2 ath9k,ath9k_common
battery                 8850  0
ideapad_laptop          3517  0
.............................

Now. the camera device is listed as "Lemovo EasyCamera"  -- /dev/video0

It's automatically picked up by the camera application 'cheese' as
well as skype, and google-talk...

.............................
meegolem-112-~> cheese

(cheese:1097): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_bin_remove: assertion
`GST_IS_BIN (bin)' failed

(cheese:1097): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_bin_add: assertion
`GST_IS_BIN (bin)' failed

** (cheese:1097): WARNING **: Couldn't change camera device.
...................................

[1] 
http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/builds/1.1.90/1.1.90.4.20110222.2/images/meego-netbook-ia32/
[2] modprobe -l output
...
kernel/drivers/media/video/zr364xx.ko
kernel/drivers/media/video/stkwebcam.ko
kernel/drivers/media/video/sn9c102/sn9c102.ko
kernel/drivers/media/video/et61x251/et61x251.ko
kernel/drivers/media/video/pwc/pwc.ko
kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_main.ko
kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_jeilinj.ko
kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_konica.ko
kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_mr97310a.ko
kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_sn9c20x.ko
kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_spca1528.ko
kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_sq905.ko
kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_sq905c.ko
kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_sq930x.ko
kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_xirlink_cit.ko
kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gl860/gspca_gl860.ko
kernel/drivers/media/video/s2255drv.ko
kernel/drivers/media/video/uvc/uvcvideo.ko
kernel/drivers/media/video/saa7164/saa7164.ko
.......................

Niels
http://nielsmayer.com
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