Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000 on ubuntu hardy - no go

On initial plugin:

[ 102.851571] usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[ 44.040462] usb 3-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[ 102.933128] usb 3-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[ 102.939599] usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[ 102.945009] usb 3-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[ 102.970417] usb 3-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[ 102.983105] usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
[ 103.020497] usb 3-1: device not accepting address 4, error -71
[ 103.025529] usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
[ 103.060941] usb 3-1: device not accepting address 5, error -71
[ 116.499098] usb 5-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
[ 116.627482] usb 5-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

and

lsusb -d 046d:0990 -v | grep bcdDevice
bcdDevice 0.08

which according to http://www.quickcamteam.net/documentation/faq/how-many-versions-of-the-quickcam-pro-9000-are-there says its third generation with buggy firmware.

If I launch cheese - system hangs completely.

According to http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/, linux 2.6.26 includes linux uvc driver natively.. but hardy is 2.6.24.

Downloaded the driver from http://linuxtv.org/hg/~pinchartl/uvcvideo/ (gz link) and then..

tar zxvf uvcvideo-bff77ec33116.tar.gz
cd uvcvideo-bff77ec33116/
make # and go have a coffee
sudo make install
reboot

dmesg now shows:

[ 105.937744] usb 5-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
[ 106.197507] usb 5-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 107.127908] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[ 107.135021] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
[ 45.915452] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device (046d:0990)
[ 45.932166] input: UVC Camera (046d:0990) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb5/5-5/5-5:1.0/input/input10
[ 45.962220] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[ 45.962226] USB Video Class driver (v0.1.0)

cheese shows no output
skype neither
dmesg now shows

[ 177.592621] uvcvideo: Failed to set UVC probe control : -110 (exp. 26).
[ 177.976920] uvcvideo: Failed to set UVC probe control : -110 (exp. 26).
[ 178.401788] uvcvideo: Failed to set UVC probe control : -110 (exp. 26).
[ 178.807251] uvcvideo: Failed to set UVC probe control : -110 (exp. 26).
[ 179.193500] uvcvideo: Failed to set UVC probe control : -110 (exp. 26).
[ 179.743456] uvcvideo: Failed to set UVC probe control : -110 (exp. 26).
[ 180.154183] uvcvideo: Failed to set UVC probe control : -110 (exp. 26).
[ 180.655020] uvcvideo: Failed to set UVC probe control : -110 (exp. 26).

skype reports

Skype V4L2: Could not find a suitable capture format
Skype V4L2: Could not find a suitable capture format

Aborting effort for now..