Hi
just have a look at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EeePC
there should be help for your webcam troubleshooting.

At first i would suggest to  check, if the webcam ist enabled in bios

I had no problem with using the webcam under ubuntu 8.4. It just works out of the box.

hi guys,
I already checked it in the wiki and ubuntu community pages. it still won't show anything. when i start cheese, the light turns on on my eee, but the screen is just black.

yes i have the same problem... 3 installations in a row now... one time i made sure to set it to Start first and then Finised after... other times i think left it just "finished" the whole time during installation....

it is definitely enabled in bios... and just like he said... green light on... black screen... compiz and metacity (in ubuntu 8.04  working in 7.10)

Yes I have exactly the same problem but in 7.10

Thanks for the advice...

I have now installed the asus modules as per the instructions on the wiki... still no positive results.
if I do the "sudo echo 1 >....." command, i get permission denied, which is strange, but it has a 1 in the file so it should be on.

I also tried the easycam2 program but it says "no camera found" when I run it.  Any one else have success?

SOOO Frustrating!!!!! haha... it is now by far my biggest problem on the eeepc... small sound/microphone issues being second. (by the way the CPU scaling thing from the wiki is really cool)

Managed to get it to work by updating the uvcvideo driver, as described here: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/19770

In short, I followed the steps below. luvcview and cheese now work, camorama doesn't (yet?)

1. sudo aptitude install subversion
2. svn co svn://svn.berlios.de/linux-uvc/linux-uvc/trunk linux-uvc
3. cd linux-uvc
4. sudo make
5. sudo make install
6. sudo modprobe -r uvcvideo
7. sudo mv /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/ubuntu/media/usbvideo/uvcvideo.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/ubuntu/media/usbvideo/uvcvideo.ko.original
8. sudo cp uvcvideo.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/ubuntu/media/usbvideo/uvcvideo.ko
9. sudo modprobe uvcvideo

Thanks ijdod, that worked perfectly for me :-D

I was getting just a black screen before updating the drivers.  Oh, and I also had to enable it in the BIOS - don't know why that got changed.

edd8990 wrote:

Hobbes828 wrote:

Thanks for the advice...

I have now installed the asus modules as per the instructions on the wiki... still no positive results.
if I do the "sudo echo 1 >....." command, i get permission denied, which is strange, but it has a 1 in the file so it should be on.

Just as a note: The correct way to run the echo command on ubuntu is: echo 1 | sudo tee /proc/acpi/asus/camera

This is to stop people using sudo bash, which is heavily recommended against by the Ubuntu devs.

Makes sense! Thanks for that

To Hobbes828, have you checked that 'uvcvideo' actually loaded and did you put it in 'modules' if you rebooted?

Hobbes828 wrote:

lsmod | grep uvcvideo:

uvcvideo               58116  0
compat_ioctl32          2304  1 uvcvideo
videodev               29440  1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat            15492  2 uvcvideo,videodev
v4l2_common            18304  2 uvcvideo,videodev
usbcore               146028  6 uvcvideo,usb_storage,libusual,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd


also i don't seem to have any "camera" listed under my asus subdirectory right now.... should i the try to rebuild the asus acpi modules? (perhaps this is because i just today updated linux-kernel-image and modules?, though now im mostly bs-ing)

thanks for the patience and help

I'd recompile or redownload your 'uvcvideo' as the memory footprint of yours differs to the working one of mine. I'd just follow ijdod's instructions above and see if it works.

Thank you - That cured my web cam woes too (not that I had any, but as there is a web cam, it was annoying it didn't work). Strikes me as odd that the new module is close to 10 times bigger than the original tho!

/Zilver

noxx wrote:

this worked for me but i think the webcam is a lot slower then it was with xandros... does anyone else have the same problem??

Using what? With Cheese I get ~3-4 fps, but with luvcview 25-30 fps.

/Zilver

Hey again... I am still sitting in the same situation... no webcam functionality...

I have since installed eeebuntu just for fun and the off chance it might change my webcam status.. but to no avail....

I downloaded and compiled the uvcvideo driver, loaded it again... if i disable the camera in bios i can't even open ucview(can't find compatible camera)... but if it is enabled, seems to detect the camera, i choose (and have tried both settings UVUY or whatever), but nothing showing up, just little green led for my troubles... cheese also doesn't work.

and compiz is off in case that was your thought.... any steps for me to take left for me to diagnose the problem?  I mean this is 3 installs running now and same annoying problem.