Making Hercules Classic Link web camera work with Ubuntu 19.10

I've got myself a simple webcam today, and it didn't work correctly on Ubuntu 19.10. It blinked its LED and went silent, and in Cheese or Skype the camera does not work, although it's listed in lsusb under the name Guillemot Corp. and with ID 06f8:300. The sound works fine though.

I did a little research on the topic and found out about two types of drivers - gspca and uvc, and that both of them are included in the kernel since 2.6 something.

Then I did a bit more research and found out that my camera is using gspca_pac7302 driver and throwing errors like gspca_pac7302 5-3.2.4:1.0: URB error -71, resubmitting. Interesting that this driver is listed to support this device (06f8:3009) here

Then, I decided to try out my older laptop with Ubuntu 14.04 installed, and there it started to work immediately. I've listed the modules and found out that it is using uvcvideo.

Doing some further research and putting simple logic I found this thread OV2640 Webcam not detected

But unloading videodev did not work for me, because the module was in use, as well as gspca_main. Although, gspca_pac7302 was unloaded successfully with modprobe -r, and I could load uvcvideo successfully, too. But that didn't help much as the camera is still not working.

Currently, I have these modules loaded:

lsmod | grep gspca
gspca_main 24576 1
videobuf2_vmalloc 20480 2 gspca_main,uvcvideo
videobuf2_v4l2 24576 2 gspca_main,uvcvideo
videobuf2_common 53248 3 gspca_main,videobuf2_v4l2,uvcvideo
videodev 208896 6 gspca_main,v4l2_common,videobuf2_v4l2,uvcvideo,videobuf2_common

lsmod | grep uvc
uvcvideo 98304 0
v4l2_common 16384 1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_vmalloc 20480 2 gspca_main,uvcvideo
videobuf2_v4l2 24576 2 gspca_main,uvcvideo
videobuf2_common 53248 3 gspca_main,videobuf2_v4l2,uvcvideo
videodev 208896 6 gspca_main,v4l2_common,videobuf2_v4l2,uvcvideo,videobuf2_common
mc 53248 5 videodev,snd_usb_audio,videobuf2_v4l2,uvcvideo,videobuf2_common

It seems to me some of them are conflicting or something, am I right? How do I resolve this, do I need to blacklist everything connected to gspca and put uvcvideo to /etc/modules?

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