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bigbanana69
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 Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2019 11:29 am Post subject: How do I check my laptop webcam if its installed properly? |
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Hi,
I installed gentoo x86 on my acer laptop, I think I had checked usb video, multimedia support and usb multimedia in kernel configuration when configuring and compiling.
How do I check if my webcam works properly?
lsusb shows some devices, but I don't recognize if one of the list is a webcam.
there's no video in /dev (ex video0)
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Verdazil
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| Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2019 11:49 am Post subject: Re: How do I check my laptop webcam if its installed properl |
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| bigbanana69 wrote: | | I think I had checked usb video, multimedia support and usb multimedia in kernel configuration when configuring and compiling. |
Usually, this is not enough and you need to specify in the kernel support for a particular camera chip.
| bigbanana69 wrote: | | How do I check if my webcam works properly? |
I check in cheese or skype
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bigbanana69
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Actually, lsusb shows some device Chicony so it's probably the webcam, I am on gentoo x86, skype is only x64 now.
I'll try cheese.
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lsusb -v -d 04f2:b47f
shows it as vga webcam, later I'll try with cheese.
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