After a recent ubuntu update, I no longer had webcam functionality. I reinstalled 12.10 via a live disk and tested the webcam with cheese--it worked fine. It only stops working after fully updating.
The restore settings feature via the System76 driver did not fix the problem.
Resetting things to "Optimized Defaults" in the bios didn't help either.
This could be a number of things (gstreamer?, kernel patch?). I will look at the packages installed in the update
Model: Lemu4, Ubuntu 12.10
UPDATE: Device is still listed under ls /dev/video* as video0
lsusb still displays the device
In the preferences menu of cheese the device is still recognized but no image is displayed.
Testing the pipeline in gstreamer-properties yields no display of output, only says "testing pipeline"
kamerka doesn’t display anything either.
I think the problem is coming from linux-headers-generic 3.5.0.25.31
UPDATE 2: Running the System Testing program's camera test shows that it doesn't work.
Results for picture test: Image viewer opened and said "Could not load image 'camera_test_lm810p.jpg'. Error interpreting JPEG image file (Improper call to JPEG library in state 200)"
Nothing showed up at all during the video test.
UPDATE 3: Forced linux-image-generic and linux-headers-generic to earlier version with Synaptic - Still no success.
Reset cheese's config with dconf editor - Unsuccessful
I'm running out of ideas :S
Update 4: Similar to cashat, guvcview works and skype does not. I also filed a system76 support case and have yet to receive a reply.
Update 5: Forgot to mention earlier that fn+f10 does turns the camera on or off but image/video is still not displayed.
Could these certain programs have incompatibilities with kernel updates rather than this being a kernel fault? Perhaps an ffmpeg library or something to do with gstreamer prevents these programs from working correctly with a new kernel? I know cheese is fairly unreliable but the null result from gstreamer-properties is suspicious.
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