Webcam not working on Thinkpad E520

[Daniel Wayne Armstrong]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Daniel Wayne Armstrong
<daniel-HRJVlgn2G/y5aS82P/H3Zg at public.gmane.org> 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

Webcam is FIXED.

When running VLC failed to display video I suspected - combined with
the webcam/desktop freezes - there might be a deeper problem with the
X environment. I checked to see if there was a more recent Xorg
package in Debian backports ... there is. Replacing the default Xorg
and Intel driver in Squeeze with the backported versions + the
backported kernel resolved the issue.

Thanks for the replies.

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