Re: Acer HD Crystal Eye webcam (064e:a117 Suyin Corp.) not working on Ubuntu 9.10 beta and Cheese

[Andrea Grandi <a grandi gmail com>]

Hi,

2009/10/3 Filippo Argiolas <fargiolas gnome org>:
> Apparently HAL cannot detect your webcam (what does
> hal-find-by-capability --capability video4linux say?) . We had some

this is the output:

andrea andrea-laptop:~$ hal-find-by-capability --capability video4linux
andrea andrea-laptop:~$

nothing :(

> other reports like this but they usually came from users with exotic
> devices with unmaintained out of tree drivers.
> I really doubt that's the case with you since I'm pretty sure your
> webcam worked fine in the past with uvcvideo drivers. Given we didn't
> change anything in the device detection code for 2.28 something must
> have changed either in uvcvideo or in libv4l.

yes it worked (bad, but it worked) with Ubuntu 9.04 for example.

any other test I can do?

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