Steve, I just had the same error while attempting to get my webcam working in ARCH.
You may try this out:
firstly
* verify you have svn installed
* remove any instance of r5u870 or the ry5u870 modules you may already have from previous attempts.
then try xawtv to see if it works (sudo apt-get install xawtv)Code: Select all
svn co http://svn.mediati.org/svn/r5u870/trunk ~/r5u870 cd ~/r5u870 sudo make sudo make install sudo modprobe r5u870
test it usingCode: Select all
xawtv /dev/video0
Since Mint is basically a customised Ubuntu, this should work fine. Let me know how it goes!