Comments on: Tip: Getting Your Webcam To Work In Ubuntu

By: Games Accessories

Games Accessories — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:11:05 +0000

Thanks for the info. I found it really useful.

By: Willie

Willie — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:33:37 +0000

Hello: How can I get a ID 0545:8135 Xirlink, Inc. Veo Mobile/Advanced Web Camera working in Ubuntu 9.04?

Thanks.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:02:13 +0000

Thanks for sharing informations.Looking forward to more stuff.

By: RayArdia

RayArdia — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:55:29 +0000

Have an Acer 5735 laptop with a built-in Crystal Eye webcam. Running Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04.
Tried the steps at start of this thread:- no joy –
Results were:-

ray@xxxxxxLaptop:~$ sudo modprobe -r gspca
[sudo] password for xxxxxx:
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf.backup, it will be ignored in a future release.
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf line 41: ignoring bad line starting with ‘gksudo’
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf line 42: ignoring bad line starting with ’snd-hda-intel’
FATAL: Module gspca not found.

I’ve no idea what all this means, what should I do to get the webcam to work?

By: rémi

rémi — Sun, 17 May 2009 00:57:34 +0000

try the uvcvideo driver, it worked for me.

By: abil

abil — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:35:01 +0000

pliz help me how to solve it.
its after i wrote dmesg

[ 13.988909] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[ 14.097234] ath_pci 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 14.097251] ath_pci 0000:04:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 14.592429] MadWifi: ath_attach: Switching rfkill capability off.
[ 14.697883] wifi0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC 14.2, PHY SChip 7.0, Radio 10.2)
[ 14.748386] input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input7
[ 14.810824] HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
[ 14.810920] HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 14.842903] hda_codec: Unknown model for ALC268, trying auto-probe from BIOS…
[ 14.969122] ath_pci: wifi0: Atheros 5424/2424: mem=0×34600000, irq=17
[ 14.977989] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Acer Crystal Eye webcam (5986:0105)
[ 14.978965] input: Acer Crystal Eye webcam as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0/input/input8
[ 14.988302] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[ 14.988319] USB Video Class driver (v0.1.0)
[ 15.369688] input: PS/2 Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input9
[ 15.468314] input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input10
[ 15.672183] ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
[ 16.592120] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 16.743060] Adding 915664k swap on /dev/sda8. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:915664k

By: Racso562

Racso562 — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:59:57 +0000

Hey, I was wondering if you had the driver for that webcam? If you do, could you please send it to me?

By: floordog

floordog — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:37:11 +0000

I have three questions:

Can you do this with a network camera using Mpeg4 or Mjpeg?

Do you know of a way to do the same thing with Windows XP?

How can you have the detected motion of the webcam, grab the image that changed +/- a few frames and automatically send an email to a predetermined email address with attached image.

The result would be when your camera detects motion, it would send you an image to your email or even use twitter. That way, you know if it is important or not.

By: Lager Monster

Lager Monster — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:38:18 +0000

Actually this may work for many other devices as well.
This is because multiple drivers are loaded for the same function. Do this on the command prompt:
$ lsmod | grep video

look for
videodev 29440 2 gspca,sn9c102

here we see two modules loaded, gspca usually works.
Remove a module then start your viewer app, no joy? remove the other and reload the 1st removed.

Hope this helps.

By: Lager Monster

Lager Monster — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:26:11 +0000

Thanks this works for the Microdia Clas Ohlson TWC-30XOP WebCam too
but you run
sudo modprobe -r sn9c102
then
blacklist sn9c102