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 for loose wires. Found nothing of use. In the end I gave up and bought a £10 USB webcam and plugged it in. ...and then I spent a day installing the microdia drivers and wishing I'd checked for compatibility first. Cheers, Matt On 17 November 2010 19:22, Barry Drake <bdr...@crosswire.org> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 21:13 +0000, 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 live-CD still cannot > find the camera - and this was what happened before. After that, I > restored the factory image and still got no result. Something has > definitely destroyed the webcam. And if the hardware is not found, but > plugging in an external webcam works, it has to be hardware. > > Back to the same question I guess .... > > Regards, Barry. > -- > Sent from my pcspecialist PC using Ubuntu - the window-free environment > that gives me real fresh air. > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
