Bug 788748

Summary: Webcam recognized but not working on sony vaio sa3
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Daniel Mircea <daniel>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda
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Description Daniel Mircea 2012-02-08 22:49:43 UTC 
Created attachment 560403 [details]
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Description of problem:
Notebook webcam not working - although, curiously there even is a /dev/video0 entry.

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Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run "cheese"
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Actual results:
Webcam light turns on, cheese acts as if a camera is working fine, you can even save screenshots. However, the image is blank (black).


Expected results:
An image.


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Comment 1 Daniel Mircea 2012-02-15 21:11:25 UTC 
Installing the r5u87x-firmware package solved the problem. 

It would had been great if this was installed by default.