Integrated webcam fails.

Hello everyone. My first post to the forum.

I installed Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop with UNR according to the guide below onto a Acer Aspire One ZG5:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne

Everything is working but the webcam.

On boot up, there was no "/dev/video" and `dmesg | grep uvc` returned:

Code:

$ ls -l /dev/vid*
ls: cannot access /dev/vid*: No such file or directory
$ 

Code:

$ dmesg | grep vid
[    0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[    2.647789] pci 0000:00:02.0: Boot video device
[   25.617668] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[   25.643332] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
$ 

I've tried the instructions from here, and have "uvcvideo" in the /etc/modules file:

Code:

# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.

fuse
lp
ath_pci
uvcvideo

And already had added and removed the line in /etc/modprobe.d/options without any success:

Code:

options uvcvideo quirks=2

I would get the following before:

Code:

$ dmesg | grep uvc
[   21.408477] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB 2.0 Camera (0c45:62c0)
[   22.409173] uvcvideo: Failed to query (1) UVC control 2 (unit 0) : -110 (exp. 26).
[   22.409188] uvcvideo: Failed to initialize the device (-5).
[   27.408424] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
$ 

Now I get don't even get the uvcvideo: lines..

The uvcvideo is installed:

Code:

$ lsmod | grep uvc
uvcvideo               62728  0 
compat_ioctl32          9344  1 uvcvideo
videodev               41344  1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat            22404  2 uvcvideo,videodev
usbcore               148848  4 uvcvideo,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
$ 

Cheese, luvcview, and Camerama all fail to detect the webcam.

What can I do to get the webcam working with Ubuntu 8.10?

Any help to get the webcam working would be appreciated.

 

i have Ubuntu 8.10 installed on my AAO110L.

its fully updated and then 2days ago i installed Sickboy's latest kernel.

even before i installed sickboys kernel and even now whilst am running sickboys version of 2.6.28 my webcam is working totally fine..

i would suggest reinstalling ubuntu mate or wait for one of the gurus to come in because i see no reason why it wouldnt work tbh..

jst my 2 cents

 

Thanks mate for the reply. I wanted to avoid reinstallation, because it has taken so long (several days) to customize it just the way I want. But since webcam needs to work, I backed up everything with Mondo (hope the restore works :? ) and went ahead and reinstalled.

Same result, uvcvideo failed and no /dev/video nor /dev/video0:

Code:

$ dmesg | grep uvc
[   19.447337] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB 2.0 Camera (0c45:62c0)
[   20.449122] uvcvideo: Failed to query (1) UVC control 2 (unit 0) : -110 (exp. 26).
[   20.449136] uvcvideo: Failed to initialize the device (-5).
[   25.448400] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
$

I ran luvcview to test and got the same error:

Code:

$ luvcview -y yuv
luvcview 0.2.4

SDL information:
  Video driver: x11
  A window manager is available
Device information:
  Device path:  /dev/video0
ERROR opening V4L interface: No such file or directory
$ 

Code:

$ sudo ls -l /dev/vid*
ls: cannot access /dev/vid*: No such file or directory
$ 

Code:

$ uname -a
Linux myworkstation 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Fri Oct 24 06:42:44 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
$

Was your kernel before Sick Boy's kernel version 2.6.27-x?

I'm on bios 3114. I've tried installing 3309 three or four times, but it wouldn't take, just hang when running the 3309.bat command in freedos. I've tried the bios upgrading instructions both here and here. And even tried this trick. It stayed on v0.3114. The Release notes for 3309 does mention any fixes for the webcam, video, nor usb between 3114 through 3309, so I'm thinking the BIOS verions wouldn't matter. I could be wrong.

I even tried installing this distro specially made for Aspire One, but still no video, no /dev/video, no /dev/video0, and nothing returned from `dmesg | grep uvc`.

I'm going to try installing, but I'm sure I'm going to get the same result.

Anyone have any ideas?