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kelby232 Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 25 May 2010 Posts: 112
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 12:58 am Post subject: <SOLVED>Acer Aspire ZG5 Webcam Woes |
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Hi everyone,
I can not for the life of me figure out how to get my webcam working on my netbook.
I am not sure what is needed so please tell me what to post and I will post them on here as quick as I can.
I am running gnome, x32 architecture, and my netbook is an acer aspire zg5.
Thank you everyone.
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cach0rr0 Bodhisattva
Joined: 13 Nov 2008 Posts: 4123 Location: Houston, Republic of Texas
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 1:30 am Post subject: |
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most of these laptop webcams use the 'uvcvideo' driver
If you're already comfortable enough configuring your kernel, fire up menuconfig, hit the /forward slash to search, and search for "USB_VIDEO_CLASS"
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Symbol: USB_VIDEO_CLASS [=n]
│ Type : tristate
│ Prompt: USB Video Class (UVC)
│ Defined at drivers/media/video/uvc/Kconfig:1
│ Depends on: MEDIA_SUPPORT [=n] && VIDEO_CAPTURE_DRIVERS [=n] && VIDEO_V4L2 [=n] && V4L_USB_DRIVERS [=n] && USB [=y]
│ Location:
│ -> Device Drivers
│ -> Multimedia support (MEDIA_SUPPORT [=n])
│ -> Video capture adapters (VIDEO_CAPTURE_DRIVERS [=n])
│ -> V4L USB devices (V4L_USB_DRIVERS [=n])
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If you build this as a module, you should be able to modprobe uvcvideo, and so long as your regular user is in the 'video' group, running something like cheese should "just work". If you weren't already a member of the video group, you'll need to logout and log back in for the change to take effect.
Ifffff all of this is unfamiliar territory, give a shout, should be easy enough to talk you through it _________________ Lost configuring your system?
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kelby232 Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 25 May 2010 Posts: 112
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Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 12:59 pm Post subject: |
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cach0rr0 wrote: | most of these laptop webcams use the 'uvcvideo' driver
If you're already comfortable enough configuring your kernel, fire up menuconfig, hit the /forward slash to search, and search for "USB_VIDEO_CLASS"
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Symbol: USB_VIDEO_CLASS [=n]
│ Type : tristate
│ Prompt: USB Video Class (UVC)
│ Defined at drivers/media/video/uvc/Kconfig:1
│ Depends on: MEDIA_SUPPORT [=n] && VIDEO_CAPTURE_DRIVERS [=n] && VIDEO_V4L2 [=n] && V4L_USB_DRIVERS [=n] && USB [=y]
│ Location:
│ -> Device Drivers
│ -> Multimedia support (MEDIA_SUPPORT [=n])
│ -> Video capture adapters (VIDEO_CAPTURE_DRIVERS [=n])
│ -> V4L USB devices (V4L_USB_DRIVERS [=n])
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If you build this as a module, you should be able to modprobe uvcvideo, and so long as your regular user is in the 'video' group, running something like cheese should "just work". If you weren't already a member of the video group, you'll need to logout and log back in for the change to take effect.
Ifffff all of this is unfamiliar territory, give a shout, should be easy enough to talk you through it |
That did the trick.
Thank you very much! |
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