I'm having the same issue on an Asus UL30A running Karmic Koala. This patch (backported from libv4l-0.6.4) solves the issue on my hardware.
** Attachment added: "Patch to add USB id 064e:a136 to the vflip table of libv4lib" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36154071/add_USBID_064e_a136_for_Asus_UL30.diff -- Image on webcam is upside-down https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/224559 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