Activate web cam
I have a Toshiba satellite C55D A5108 it came with windows 10 on it. And I decided to install Linux on it. The laptop has an integrated web Cam on it and since I changed from windows to Linux I haven't been able how to use the web Cam. Do I have to install something? Or set it up in terminal?
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hawksfan92,
Assuming that it was working in Windows and is switched on (e.g. Fn + F6), open Terminal and type: Code:
lspci Code:
lsusb A Device ID should be listed for the webcam. Check the ID against this list and see whether the device works or not: http://www.ideasonboard.org/uvc/ |
It was working before I switched to Linux. I went through terminal following your instructions and I got I'd numbers starting with 1d6b. And I did not see any that matched on that list, so my built in one isn't compatible with Linux?
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Please post the results in their entirety. This might give us a better idea of what's going on. Regards... |
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Just decides to take a pic for ya
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dmesg Regards... |
hawksfan92,
The command lsb should give a result like this: Code:
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 04f2:b008 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd USB 2.0 Camera There should also be a webcam indicator light somewhere. Open Terminal and please give us the output of: Code:
usb-devices Code:
dmesg | grep -i usb Code:
lsmod | grep uvcvideo Code:
ls /dev/video* In your reply, copy and paste the outputs separately into the text box. Then highlight the outputs individually and click on # (above this text box). |
hawksfan92,
The command lsb should give a result like this: Code:
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 04f2:b008 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd USB 2.0 Camera There should also be a webcam indicator light somewhere. Open Terminal and please give us the output of: Code:
usb-devices Code:
dmesg | grep -i usb Code:
lsmod | grep uvcvideo Code:
ls /dev/video* In your reply, copy and paste the outputs separately into the text box. Then highlight the outputs individually and click on # (above this text box). @ardvark71, Importek does not sound very promising! Never heard of that webcam make before. |
And just looked in my bios I have version 1.80 and web Cam is enabled.
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Take a look through here. Regards... |
Yeah, I'm sure all of my drivers need updated. But I did some diggin around in terminal to find out what's wrong with my laptop cause it's been running like crap for a long while now. And I have a lot of debugging to do, somehow I have coding errors... not sure how that happens, I don't mess with that. I'm thinkin I might just back it up and reinstall Linux
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Most times webcams are on the usb bus, even when they're built into the laptop.
$ sudo apt-get install guvcviewer $ guvcviewer If the driver is working (or appearing to), you should have a /dev/video# device. Otherwise you're missing some low level driver stuff, or it isn't supported. |
I'll try those commands before I reinstall Linux so I know, but my system is so bad I think I just have to do that
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HEY!!! good news guys!! So here I was messing around on vlc and on the playlist menu there is a video capture option under devices and I clocked on it and over on the play list pops up Toshiba web Cam click on that and it works! Now thinking about it makes sense I had a hard time finding it cause it had a program on windows and switching to Linux took that away. Now I just got to download a program for it. I hear cheese is good, and opinions on the programs available?
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Awesome, glad you got it working! :) Quote:
Let is know how it goes... Regards... |
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