setting up webcam
I have no idea if anyone will be able to help me with this, but I thought it's worth a try.
I've had this laptop for several months now and still haven't used the webcam, partly because it's not really that essential but mostly because I can't get it to work. Kamoso is just blank, and if I click the picture-taking button it does the flash and stuff, but doesn't actually take a picture.
Before I upgraded to Trusty, I'm pretty sure OpenShot Video Editor gave me some kind of error if I tried to use the webcam, but it seems to be broken after upgrade so I can't test that out now.
To start with, here is what KInfoCenter says about my webcam:
As far as I've been able to find out, the necessary driver is installed in Kubuntu by default and everything should just work out of the box. But it doesn't.
I found out about something called dov4l and when I ran it I got the following error:
That's pretty much all the information I have.
I've had this laptop for several months now and still haven't used the webcam, partly because it's not really that essential but mostly because I can't get it to work. Kamoso is just blank, and if I click the picture-taking button it does the flash and stuff, but doesn't actually take a picture.
Before I upgraded to Trusty, I'm pretty sure OpenShot Video Editor gave me some kind of error if I tried to use the webcam, but it seems to be broken after upgrade so I can't test that out now.
To start with, here is what KInfoCenter says about my webcam:
As far as I've been able to find out, the necessary driver is installed in Kubuntu by default and everything should just work out of the box. But it doesn't.
I found out about something called dov4l and when I ran it I got the following error:
Code:
VIDIOCGCAP: Inappropriate ioctl for device