Hi Sandie,
On 17/02/2023 16:07, Sandie via dorset wrote:
The install has not found the web cam! I tested the camera in the shop
before I bought the computer. On the Windows system it worked well.
Application Cheese came installed on Ubuntu 22 but it couldn't see a
camera so I uninstalled it. I have reinstalled, uninstalled quite a
few times. There are 2 versions of Cheese on offer in the Ubuntu
software menu. I tried both several times. Then I tried & installed
an application called Cameratrls? It found a camera named 0 & worked
not too well on one zoom call. Now it too has failed.
I tried a little bit of commanding on terminal, from tips I found
searching for help. However some permission/s were denied.
I can't really offer much advice other than my own experience with
Kubuntu 22.10, which I related earlier on this list with regard to
another issue.
I've been in the habit of upgrading to the latest version as soon as it
is available and I duly upgrade 22.04 to 22.10 at the end of last year.
I didn't notice it at first, but I lost the klipper icon in the task bar
and after some experimenting I did a clean install of 22.10 (retaining
my home partition, which didn't actually fix the problem, but that's
another story). Anyway I too was unable to access my webcam. However,
this came back after I had installed cheese.
I see that you have tried cheese, so this is clearly not too much help,
but I suspect that 22.10 had a bug (amongst others) relating to the
camera driver, so maybe you need to visit the Launchpad site to see if
there is anything relevant to your particular problem. A quick search
using the term 'webcam' came up with a confirmed bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cheese/+bug/1788725
Best of luck.
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