diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index e7324ced9..4cd1bfb98 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -608,12 +608,6 @@ if((NOT HAVE_LIBCRYPTO) AND (NOT HAVE_LIBGNUTLS))
             "ZoneMinder requires crypto or gnutls but none were found on your system")
 endif((NOT HAVE_LIBCRYPTO) AND (NOT HAVE_LIBGNUTLS))
 
-include(FindV4L2)
-if(V4L2_FOUND)
-	list(APPEND ZM_BIN_LIBS "${V4L2_LIBRARY}")
-	set(optlibsfound "${optlibsfound} v4l2")
-endif(V4L2_FOUND)
-
 # Check for V4L header files and enable ZM_HAS_V4L, ZM_HAS_V4L1, ZM_HAS_V4L2 accordingly
 # Setting to zeros first is required because ZM uses #define for these
 set(ZM_HAS_V4L 0)
diff --git a/src/zm_local_camera.cpp b/src/zm_local_camera.cpp
index 90bde1673..554ddcd46 100644
--- a/src/zm_local_camera.cpp
+++ b/src/zm_local_camera.cpp
@@ -32,8 +32,6 @@
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <limits.h>
 
-#include <libv4l2.h>
-
 /* Workaround for GNU/kFreeBSD */
 #if defined(__FreeBSD_kernel__)
 #ifndef ENODATA
@@ -48,8 +46,8 @@ static int vidioctl( int fd, int request, void *arg )
   int result = -1;
   do
   {
-    result = v4l2_ioctl( fd, request, arg );
-  } while ( result == -1 && ( ( errno == EINTR ) || (errno == EAGAIN)) );
+    result = ioctl( fd, request, arg );
+  } while ( result == -1 && errno == EINTR );
   return( result );
 }
 
@@ -826,7 +824,7 @@ void LocalCamera::Initialise()
         v4l2_data.reqbufs.count = 1;
       }
     } else {
-      v4l2_data.reqbufs.count = 2;
+      v4l2_data.reqbufs.count = 8;
     }
     Debug( 3, "Request buffers count is %d", v4l2_data.reqbufs.count );
 
@@ -870,9 +868,9 @@ void LocalCamera::Initialise()
         Fatal( "Unable to query video buffer: %s", strerror(errno) );
 
       v4l2_data.buffers[i].length = vid_buf.length;
-      v4l2_data.buffers[i].start = v4l2_mmap( NULL, vid_buf.length, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, vid_fd, vid_buf.m.offset );
+      v4l2_data.buffers[i].start = mmap( NULL, vid_buf.length, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, vid_fd, vid_buf.m.offset );
 
-      if ( MAP_FAILED == v4l2_data.buffers[i].start )
+      if ( v4l2_data.buffers[i].start == MAP_FAILED )
         Fatal( "Can't map video buffer %d (%d bytes) to memory: %s(%d)", i, vid_buf.length, strerror(errno), errno );
 
 #if HAVE_LIBSWSCALE