Webcam not working on Thinkpad E520

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue Feb 21 18:38:45 UTC 2012


On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:56:15PM -0500, Daniel Wayne Armstrong wrote:
> Hi all ... I installed Debian Squeeze (32-bit) on a Thinkpad Edge E520
> and the built-in webcam fails to work with the backported kernel ...
> launching guvcview or luvcview alternates between crashing and locking
> up the entire desktop.
> 
> Some info:
> 
> * kernel is 3.2.0-0.bpo.1-686-pae
> * lsusb detects the webcam and identifies it as "5986:03b3 Acer"
> * uvcvideo module is loaded

Does dmesg show it as detected by the driver?

Does any /dev/video* devices get created?

> I tried booting into the default 2.6.32 kernel in Debian Squeeze and
> the webcam *did* work with that kernel (but everything else is better
> supported in the newer backport kernel).
> 
> Anything else I can try to get it working? Can I install maybe
> another, earlier released Debian kernel (but later than 2.6.32)?

All webcams made in the last few years should be UVC and just work
(2.6.26 kernel being an exception due to a driver bug).

I haven't tried my webcam on my thinkpad lately, but I would have expected
it to work with 3.2.0.

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