Webcam driver installation no dev/video0 folder

**QQmHGsr** · August 25th, 2013

Hello,

I have installated ubuntu 12.10 replaced my windows vista. Webcam not working after that. Also there is no /dev/video0 folder at all. It was working fine with windows and i assume there is no driver installed. Please suggest or help of how to proceed with installing. I also installed Cheese and when i try to open it i get the error "no device found". Please help.

Thanks

**QQmHGsr** · August 25th, 2013

more information around this. When i type lsusb in terminal window. i get the below text

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05ca:1836 Richo Co., Ltd Visual communication camera vgp-vcc4(r5u870)
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver

**coldraven** · August 25th, 2013

Do you have a icon for your web-cam on your keyboard? It might just be switched off by hardware.
Something like Fn+F7 might cure it. Sorry but no web-cam on this laptop so I'm really just guessing.

**Merrattic** · August 25th, 2013

Check your dmesg for some output, easiest to do after unplugging and plugging in webcam for fresh output

**QQmHGsr** · August 25th, 2013

My laptop has inbuilt web cam and so i can't unplug and plug again.

Also there is no web-cam icon on my keyboard.

Really struck here as web-cam is widely used in this laptop on daily basis. Any help is appreciated.

**Merrattic** · August 29th, 2013

OK, can we please have the output from:

Code:

lsusb

Code:

hwinfo --usb

Code:

dmesg

**mytaz** · September 17th, 2013

I have too this problem of no video0, you can create one with a sudo mknod, a chmod 666, a ls -n to create a symbolic link... But gstreamer-properties reply no video0 !!! I suppose there is a problem with permissions or groups because video or video0 belongs to root and I don't know how to change to my admin account (by users & groups, il doesn't work) !!!