6 replies to this topic

[bobm]

Bummer, I did a restore to the default OS and since then the webcam has stopped working.

Interestingly the BIOS had the webcam disabled so I enabled it.

But the system diags don't see the camera and the webcam app just gives me a blank screen, although the webcam app does turn on the green led.

the app eeecamtray seg faults for me and doing:

echo 1 > /proc/acpi/asus/camera

doesn't change a thing.

Any suggestions out there?

I'm going to put the old 512M stick back in and see if that changes anything. (doubtful)

thx in advance..

[tuxpocket]

set bios to os install finished

[bobm]

Thanks Tuxpocket, that did it..

and in record time..

I'll update the wiki to reflect this issue (non-issue)

[AgentEntropy]

This is a known issue. Further discussion can be found here: http://forum.eeeuser...pic.php?id=1455

Please use the search before posting new topics. Thank you. :)

[bobm]

Oh but I did use the search, quite extensively.

it's not in the wiki and searching for 'dead webcam', 'inactive webcam', even 'webcam' didn't turn up anything.

I didn't think to search on 'webcam black image' which gets to the discussion. Note that I was using the diagnostics to determine that the webcam was not working...

Thanks for the help..

[vwra]

I have a USB WebCam that lists correctly when I run Diagnostics > USB > Test as "VIMICRO Corp PCam". Is there a way to activate this external web cam for use with Skype or reording video application ?

ADDED: I also tried my Creative Optia and it also shows up correctly in Diagnostics but no connect in Skype or recording application. ????

Edited by vwra, 30 March 2008 - 05:19 PM.

[harlequin93]

I also have an external USB webcam that lists correctly in Diagnostics > USB > Test, but Skype reports "No devices found."

Do I need to enable this device? And where do I enable it?

Edited by harlequin93, 27 November 2009 - 12:17 AM.