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Hi everyone,
I am Eddie, and I am very much a newbie to Linux Mint. Linux in general, and I am trying to figure out how to access or rather activate/link the camera installed in the laptop on the web. I am unable to access flash or the cam (of course) on a website or any other application I install. Please help... I feel the issue could be easily solved. If someone could just point me in the right direction. I will greatly appreciate it! :)

Nobody here can help you.

Why?

Because you don't provide any useful information. Try including the make and model of the laptop and the distribution of Linux you have installed and you might start to get suggestions.

Read the link in my signature about "How To Ask A Question"

Look at your distros docs.
https://linuxmint.com/documentation.php

The outputs of lspci and lsusb will help you to discover what hardware you have. Then see if you have firmware support in the kernel for your hardware. If not, look for firmware.

Then as far as the camera, you should be able to access that with

Code:

pacman -Ss camera

extra/dcraw 9.28.0-1

    Decodes any raw image from any digital camera

extra/gphoto2 2.5.23-1

    A digital camera download and access program.

extra/gvfs-gphoto2 1.40.1-2 (gnome)

    Virtual filesystem implementation for GIO (gphoto2 backend; PTP camera, MTP media

    player)

extra/kamera 19.04.2-1 (kde-applications kdegraphics)

    KDE integration for gphoto2 cameras

extra/libdc1394 2.2.6-1 [installed: 2.2.5-2]

    High level programming interface to control IEEE 1394 based cameras

extra/libgphoto2 2.5.23-1 [installed: 2.5.22-1]

    The core library of gphoto2, designed to allow access to digital camera by

    external programs.

extra/libraw 0.19.2-1

    A library for reading RAW files obtained from digital photo cameras (CRW/CR2,

    NEF, RAF, DNG, and others)

extra/qt5-multimedia 5.12.4-1 (qt qt5)

    Classes for audio, video, radio and camera functionality

community/gpscorrelate 1.6.2-5

    Correlate (geotagging) digital camera photos with GPS data in GPX format

community/pantheon-camera 1.0.4-2 (pantheon)



pacman -Ss webcam

extra/cheese 3.32.1-2 (gnome)

    Take photos and videos with your webcam, with fun graphical effects

extra/kamoso 19.04.2-1 (kde-applications kdemultimedia)

    A webcam recorder from KDE community

community/zart 2.6.7-1

    A GUI for G'MIC real-time manipulations on the output of a webcam

You should also be able to access that cam with v4l2 and ffmpeg.
Like these example:

Code:

ffmpeg -f v4l2 -s 200x150 -i /dev/video0 -c:v libx264 -b:v 300k out.avi

ffplay -f v4l2 -s 640x480 -i /dev/video0

https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to...linux-mint-19/

Shotgun link for Webcam

Mint 19 Troubleshooting guide

Basically I am grabbing everything from over here
https://www.linuxmint.com/documentation.php

Grab a user manual while there also. Happy Trails. Good luck.

Edit: I agree learning to ask the question the smart way is a very good forum etiqutte to learn. Posted by a scooter tramp with a GED.