Description of problem: kernel does not find webcam of eee pc 900. Smolt profile here: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_709585b1-faaf-492c-ac21-142da001afbd Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686 system fully updated as of today. How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. launch ucview 2. ucview fails with message "No supported video capture devices found!" 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: this is consistent behaviour from F-9 upwards (not finding webcam). Note that the linux version pre-installed worked found the webcam just fine, and so did the application (ucview). (There is no longer the original distro installed) manual modprobing uvcvideo (as described in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EeePc#Webcam) succeeds but the webcam is still not detected.
Hans, is this camera supported in 2.6.29?
(In reply to comment #1) > Hans, is this camera supported in 2.6.29? It should be, the 900 has known hardware problems where it drains the battery even when off, one possible workaround advertised for this is to disable all usb ports in the BIOS, that could be the cause of this. Sarantis, Can you: 1) Check that USB is enabled in the BIOS 2) Do: "lsusb" on a terminal and paste the output here 3) Do: "lsusb -n" on a terminal and paste the output here Thanks!
The camera was disabled in the BIOS. Enabling it made it work for the first time in Fedora. The reason I had not checked there before was that the camera worked with the asus-specific distro. Closing NOTABUG for now, if you would like the lsusb info anyway, let me know. Thanks.
As an additional datapoint, the webcam became self-disabled again in the BIOS and it needed manual enabling again.