lores
November 3rd, 2008, 06:49 PM
Hello.
I've just spent a few days trying to figure out how to get the new Ubu working. After I first upgraded from 8.04 per online-upgrade, I got my system totally destroyed. So, I fresh-installed it.
After these few days, two major problems I cannot seem to cope with are still remaining - in both installs (upgrade, fresh), I lost my floppy-drive detection (no /dev/fd0 nor gm-places entry) and additionally my webcam became non-functional (I've forgotten to check if it was detected after the upgrade, but on the fresh install it's not, which is the very issue).
Actually, I've two cams connected, a Z-Star (A4-Tech) and a Pixart (Labtec). Z-Star's always worked in Linux environments o-o-t-box, and Pixart I've never managed to even get detected* nor a /dev/video0 entry ascribed.
Now, it's Ubu 8.10... Z-Star does not even get detected* anymore, and Pixart gets a /dev/video0 entry, yet its signal (perhaps colour/format) is messed up and whenever I try to use it by an app, I either don't get it detected, or I get some random rubbish (sometimes with an error message).
* With no detection I mean the inability to recognise the device as a cam, as it obviously is listed in lsusb (the cam hardware is not a problem either).
As a result, after having upgraded to 8.10, I've not not only gotten some fancy new features, but pitifully also no cam and no floppy working anymore.
What should I do? :)
I've just spent a few days trying to figure out how to get the new Ubu working. After I first upgraded from 8.04 per online-upgrade, I got my system totally destroyed. So, I fresh-installed it.
After these few days, two major problems I cannot seem to cope with are still remaining - in both installs (upgrade, fresh), I lost my floppy-drive detection (no /dev/fd0 nor gm-places entry) and additionally my webcam became non-functional (I've forgotten to check if it was detected after the upgrade, but on the fresh install it's not, which is the very issue).
Actually, I've two cams connected, a Z-Star (A4-Tech) and a Pixart (Labtec). Z-Star's always worked in Linux environments o-o-t-box, and Pixart I've never managed to even get detected* nor a /dev/video0 entry ascribed.
Now, it's Ubu 8.10... Z-Star does not even get detected* anymore, and Pixart gets a /dev/video0 entry, yet its signal (perhaps colour/format) is messed up and whenever I try to use it by an app, I either don't get it detected, or I get some random rubbish (sometimes with an error message).
* With no detection I mean the inability to recognise the device as a cam, as it obviously is listed in lsusb (the cam hardware is not a problem either).
As a result, after having upgraded to 8.10, I've not not only gotten some fancy new features, but pitifully also no cam and no floppy working anymore.
What should I do? :)