Asus EEE webcam???

[Bart Silverstrim]

Neil wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Bart Silverstrim
> <bsilver at chrononomicon.com> wrote:
>> Blaž Repas wrote:
>>  > Hi!
>>  >
>>  > I have bought an Asus EEE laptop, installed ubuntu on it and tried Ekiga...
>>  > But the webcam does not seem to work...
>>  >
>>  > Can anyone help me??
>>
>>  I read somewhere that the webcam was disabled in the BIOS.  you might
>>  want to look there.  Maybe it was a power save thing...?
> 
> Under the original OS (Xandros) the web cam works perfectly, so it
> can't be disabled in the BIOS. Or does Xandros perform a separate
> hardware check that Ubuntu doesn't?

Ummm....no idea.  I know that with my USB webcam, I have to change 
permissions of /dev/video0 so I can read it when not running as root. 
Perhaps the webcam on the EEE isn't set with the correct perms?

Maybe something shows up in the logs or dmesg about the device, or your 
application is looking for the wrong device in /dev and has to be told 
what to use.