Running 13.04 on ASUS W5F notebook. It has a rotating cam embedded/mounted above the screen, and it and as far as I can tell the system and it aren't talking at all. It's a 1.3M cam. Not essential for me, but would love if it worked.
Thanks!
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Running 13.04 on ASUS W5F notebook. It has a rotating cam embedded/mounted above the screen, and it and as far as I can tell the system and it aren't talking at all. It's a 1.3M cam. Not essential for me, but would love if it worked.
Thanks!
Some cameras seem to have an "Auto level" setting that in a normally lit room result in just a black output.
You can test this by installing Cheese (in the Software Centre) and then shine a flashlight at the camera. If you can then see something install "uvcview".
Quit Cheese, run uvcview, uncheck the "Auto level" box and adjust the Brightness slider. Then quit, no need to save anything and try Cheese again.Code:sudo apt-get install uvcview
Tried this out, didn't have any luck. I did try to take a pic in Cheese, and I saw that funny array of green and green lines. I'm wondering if the cam might be dead in the first place.
I tried to install ucview but the terminal said the packages weren't found.
because it's uvcview not ucview
package could also be found in software center or synaptic package manager.
13.04 is obsolete. As a first step I recommend a clean install of 14.04.
Initially a friend of mine got this regarding a webcam read out;
lsmod | grep videodev
107508 3 uvcvideo,videobuf2_core
Now since upgrading to 14.04 that command finds nothing :(
An upgrade brings along old (and possibly wrong) config files and should be avioded. A fresh install is preferred.