Webcam Issues

[FreedomOverdose]

Reporting this issue as well. guvcview does display video, but cheese, vlc, and google hangouts do not.

fn+f10 does control /dev/video0 but does not seem to get the camera working

Yes, I can also confirm that the webcam works on guvcview, but not on skype/google hangouts/cheese webcam booth...

[cashat]

Updated to kernel 3.5.0-26 and now the camera works again

EDIT1: Updated via software updater.

[FreedomOverdose]

Updated to kernel 3.5.0-26 and now the camera works again

Did that update show up in the Software Updater?

[Flopy]

It shows up once you enable the `quantal-proposed` repository.

[isantop]

We're looking into the updated kernel in quantal-proposed. For now, we recommend against upgrading your system yet, as updates in proposed can have adverse, unwanted side effects. If we can find that it's a workable solution, we'll update all support tickets on our website with instructions.

In the meantime, we encourage all users experiencing this issue to open support tickets on the website if you haven't yet. This will allow us to best track your issue and get the solution out to you as quickly as possbile.

[Mugatu]

I've run into this same problem on my Lenovo laptop. I've documented some instructions as well as a bug report here:

http://askubuntu.com/a/264461/18665

Please contribute to the bug report so we can get more attention from developers and hopefully get this issue fixed soon. Thanks!

[lodoc]

With my old computer using 12.04 the camera worked fine. When I recently purchased a Pan with 12.10 installed no camera app will bring a picture up.

[mörgæs]

It seems like one or more regressions are in play.
Would be good if people could test 13.04 and see if the problem is solved.

If 13.04 is also buggy: A bug report against this one will receive more attention than 12.04 / 12.10.

[hamrick]

I am having the same issue on my lemu4 system. All works with a live disk, but fails with the latest updates. Hope it is resolved with further updates.

[Mugatu]

I am having the same issue on my lemu4 system. All works with a live disk, but fails with the latest updates. Hope it is resolved with further updates.

It sounds like this could be related to the issue I found. It only takes a few minutes to try out the fix and contribute to the bug report. If we hope to get this fixed, we need to get more attention for it:

http://askubuntu.com/a/264461/18665