On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 22:39 +0000, Barry Drake wrote: > On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 21:33 +0000, Simon Greenwood wrote: > > There is a hardware information tool that should be able to detect > > what is visible to the kernel in a bit more meaningful way than dmesg > > but its name escapes me at the moment. Have a search for 'hardware' in > > Software Centre. > > Thanks. Not found anything useful so far. BUT I tried plugging in an > old USB webcam and Cheese found that OK. I think this means that I have > a hardware problem, so I imagine I'm going to have to restore the > supplied system, test and then return to Dell. Any other thoughts? > > Regards, Barry Drake. > -- > Sent from my Dell Netbook using Ubuntu - the window-free environment > that gives me real fresh air. > >
Can you try with a live CD or USB? If the webcam is still not found, then I think you will pretty well have proved a hardware fault. Tony -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
