Logitech Quick Cam Pro 5000 on Windows 7

Well, I had a little bit of a bout with the Logitech Quick Cam Pro 5000 on Windows 7 where Windows 7 didn't seem to have any drivers to load.  What I did was download this from the Logitech FTP site.  I used Wine on Linux to run to exe and find its working directory and copy the Drivers folder.  Then on Windows 7 (64-bit), I plugged the webcam and let it search for drivers.  Open the Device Manager and right click on the unknown device to update the driver software.  I navigated to the x64 folder and used Pro464 folder and let it install that driver.  Voila, Logitech Quick Cam Pro 5000 running just fine on Windows 7.

Ubuntu 12.10: nVIDIA Oops!

I thought installing the nvidia drivers would be very easy.  Turns out, I was wrong.  I ran sudo apt-get install nvidia-current which failed because apparently, it didn't include the kernel headers.  I ended up with vesa and without the taskbar, rendering the desktop useless.

To fix this, I went to the commandline screen (ctrl+alt+f1) and logged in.  Then sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic and then sudo apt-get remove nvidia-* to get rid of the currently installed nvidia drivers.  Lastly, I ran the nvidia driver install again: sudo apt-get install nvidia-current-updates nvidia-settings to recompile the drivers (and slipped in the config app).  After reboot, all's well!  Special thanks to this forum thread.

Pulse Audio still exhibits the same issues with HDMI where the audio being played misses a few seconds.  Typical of this POS audio layer.

Now it's about trying to get this Logitech Quickcam to work which used to work splendidly on 9.10.  Oh well, time to see what's going on.