Help me make my webcam working

[no2498]

thinking this may be the auto gain in guvcview
see if you can turn it off

[dumitru]

Nobody can help me?

[no2498]

look in your system/preferences multimedia systems selector open it
click video wright down what plugin is up
change the plugin to something else use the bottom test button
should see your cam come on

[dumitru]

look in your system/preferences multimedia systems selector open it
click video wright down what plugin is up
change the plugin to something else use the bottom test button
should see your cam come on

OK, how can I access "Multimedia Systems Selector" in Ubuntu 11.10?
There is System Settings in Ubuntu 11.10 and no System/Preferences etc.

[step21]

@no2498 Hey, it's nice that you try to help people but just running dmesg in of itself will just display some system output, it can't and won't change anything. So maybe it would be better if you would not advocate that anymore.

[no2498]

ive seen dmesg load a cam grabber on my two computer's sorry

dumitru im still using 10.04 so im no help for that way
try this in a terminal
type
gstreamer-properties click enter

click video

[dumitru]

ive seen dmesg load a cam grabber on my two computer's sorry

dumitru im still using 10.04 so im no help for that way
try this in a terminal
type
gstreamer-properties click enter

click video

no2498, thanks for trying to help me. I did what you said. I tried different settings but nothing happened.

[TiberiusT]

long shot but u never know... Had a similar sounding problem with a Syntek webcam the other day on an SL300 laptop - everything seemed fine except I just got a black screen. After tonnes of lsusb/dmesg...ing I eventually did this and it worked...but doan ask me why

unload the driver module: sudo modprobe -r uvcvideo
Then reload with the correct parameter: sudo modprobe uvcvideo quirks=16

and if that works then make it permanent:

edit the options file (u might have to create one) in:
cd /etc/modprobe.d
gksudo gedit options

At the bottom (or just add it if empty) add the following line:
options uvcvideo quirks=16

and save, reboot and done!

T

[dumitru]

long shot but u never know... Had a similar sounding problem with a Syntek webcam the other day on an SL300 laptop - everything seemed fine except I just got a black screen. After tonnes of lsusb/dmesg...ing I eventually did this and it worked...but doan ask me why

unload the driver module: sudo modprobe -r uvcvideo
Then reload with the correct parameter: sudo modprobe uvcvideo quirks=16

and if that works then make it permanent:

edit the options file (u might have to create one) in:
cd /etc/modprobe.d
gksudo gedit options

At the bottom (or just add it if empty) add the following line:
options uvcvideo quirks=16

and save, reboot and done!

T

Wow, man! I was so glad when I could see the image captured by my webcam, but it is only a static image and only when I turn on Cheese or Skype.
I think we are close to the solution. It's almost working, maybe it needs another line or parameter?!

[TiberiusT]

I think we are close to the solution. It's almost working, maybe it needs another line or parameter?!

Groan! Video works fine in the SL300 I used that on. I couldn't find any details on what the quirks settings actually do and the guy who resolved it that way didn't either. Maybe someone else?


T