Webcam picture upside down

[jtakalai]

Binary package hint: ekiga

My laptop: packard bell EASYNOTE BG46-U-013D
My webcam (attached to it): no brand given, just USB 2.0 1.3M UVC WebCam; apparently quite generic
My graphics chipset: Mobile Intel GMA X3100 Graphics, Integrated in Mobile G965 Express chipset

1. the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem,
* open Ekiga, do the first-time wizard, click on the video view

2. the behavior you expected, and
* video feed (and there it was, unlike on the last ubuntu :)

3. the behavior you actually encountered (in as much detail as possible).
* video feed is upside down

Apropos: I hear there're differences in how DirectX and OpenGL return bitmaps (DirectX returns them upside down). This machine is "Vista-ready" or whatever it was, so maybe that's why?

Suggestion for fix: Add advanced options to the preferences: [picture orientation]: [no change, mirror-x, mirror-y, rotate right, rotate left, rotate around, mirror-rotate right, mirror-rotate left] and implement the transformations

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/ekiga
Package: ekiga 2.0.12-0ubuntu5
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ekiga
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-9-generic i686

[Irfan Adilovic (irfy)]

This is pretty sure a dupe of 224559. Are casual users supposed to do the marking of duplicates? (I would have done it, otherwise)

[Dmitriy Geels (dmig)]

This is not software problem. The camera itself is mounted upside down.
Here are patches for this problem: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=838210

Actually, uvcvideo driver should implement quirk to rotate image, as there are enough laptops with upside-down webcam.

P.S. I have same laptop