Asus EEE webcam???

[Mike McMullin]

On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 19:19 +0100, Neil wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln at mnsi.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 16:20 +0100, 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?
> >
> >   It may well be a simple driver issue.  Do you offhand know which
> >  driver Xandros was using?  If you don't then we need to track down the
> >  driver.  I'm not sure if the camera would be on the usb bus or the pci
> >  bus, though usb makes more sense.  For info on the USB bus in a terminal
> >  enter lsusb, and look for the info, if you don't get enough info, try
> >  lsusb -v, that will produce a lot of info and you need to look for the
> >  camera, if you cannot scroll back far enough try lsusb -v >> lsbusb.txt,
> >  and then open that with a text editor.  For the pci bus, try lspci.  For
> >  more info on either man lsusb or man lspci.
> 
> here is the entire lsusb response from a EEE running the originl
> Xandros. I can't find the camera, but you may know what it all means.
> 
> Neil
> 
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Device Descriptor:
>    255
> Hub Descriptor:

  {snip}

>   bLength               9
>   bDescriptorType      41
>   nNbrPorts             2
>   wHubCharacteristic 0x000a
>     No power switching (usb 1.0)
>     Per-port overcurrent protection
>   bPwrOn2PwrGood        1 * 2 milli seconds
>   bHubContrCurrent      0 milli Ampere
>   DeviceRemovable    0x00
>   PortPwrCtrlMask    0xff
>  Hub Port Status:
>    Port 1: 0000.0100 power
>    Port 2: 0000.0100 power
> Device Status:     0x0003
>   Self Powered
>   Remote Wakeup Enabled

  I was looking for something similar to this:
idVendor           0x0402 ALi Corp.
  idProduct          0x5602 
  bcdDevice            1.00
  iManufacturer           0 
  iProduct                1 USB2.0 Camera

   Which is part of the camera definition for the web-cam on my laptop.

If the web-cam works on the install that you posted the listing from,
would you please provide the output from lsmod.  This will tell us what
module Xandros is using to drive the hardware.