I have same issue with Intrepid on VAIO-FZ160E laptop. I have dual boot with Vista and Intrepid. Right after fresh install, my camera work fine. But after a few reboots, once in a while embedded (motion eye) camera stopped working at Cheese or Skype. It gave "No Camera found" and /dev/video0 is missing.
Even though I can always see Ricoh driver in my lsusb listing. I rebooted several times but did not work. BUT, interestingly, if I reboot to Windows Vista and come back to Intrepid my camera started working. $ lsusb Bus 003 Device 002: ID 05ca:1837 Ricoh Co., Ltd Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 004 Device 002: ID 047d:1048 Kensington Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub $uname -a Linux mizzima 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 19:33:20 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux ( this is the information right after I installed linux-backports-modules-intrepid package today) -- [Hardy] webcam stopped working after last kernel update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219252 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
