Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell netbook webcam ....

2010-11-17 Thread Matt
On 17 November 2010 20:02, Barry Drake wrote: > On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 19:38 -0200, Matt wrote: >> In the end I gave up and bought a £10 USB webcam and plugged it in. > > I think that confirms my decision.  It's quite a hassle sending the > thing back, and I already have a USB webcam that's not ver

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell netbook webcam ....

2010-11-17 Thread Barry Drake
On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 19:38 -0200, Matt wrote: > In the end I gave up and bought a £10 USB webcam and plugged it in. I think that confirms my decision. It's quite a hassle sending the thing back, and I already have a USB webcam that's not very good, but good enough. Maybe it's the camera that De

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell netbook webcam ....

2010-11-17 Thread Matt
for what it's worth: I had real webcam problems with my Dell M1330. From 8.04 until 9.04. It started intermittently, but then became permanent. lsusb didn't show it, and dmesg gave me nothing. I tried every patch and software solution I could find, and then resorted to taking it apart to check

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell netbook webcam ....

2010-11-17 Thread Barry Drake
On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 21:13 +, bod...@googlemail.com wrote: > If you have an image of a system that didn't work with the webcam, then you > get a new webcam and put the old image on and it stops again, that points to > an issue with the image. That's what I'd have said, but running from the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell netbook webcam ....

2010-11-17 Thread bodsda
evice -Original Message- From: Barry Drake Sender: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:55:07 To: UK Ubuntu Talk Reply-To: bdr...@crosswire.org, UK Ubuntu Talk Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Dell netbook webcam Hi there I mentioned failure of the built-in webc

[ubuntu-uk] Dell netbook webcam ....

2010-11-17 Thread Barry Drake
Hi there I mentioned failure of the built-in webcam on my Dell mini 10v netbook a couple of weeks ago. Since then, the netbook has come back from Dell with a new camera fitted. I sent it back with the original system restored 'as received' when new. I tested the webcam on receipt and it