Laptop Webcam Light Stays On
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One Hundred Papercuts |
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Bug Description
Webcam light stays on, webcam is always active. The camera works perfectly in Skype and Cheese. This leaves the user with the feeling that there might be a security issue and it is very wasteful from a power perspective.
Hardware details:
Acer Aspire 5100
Acer OrbiCam - Manufacturer Bison
Acer Extensa 5420
Acer Crystal Eye Webcam - Manufacturer Suyin Optronics CORP
PowerTop reports that USB2.0 Camera is active 100% of the time and USB autosuspend should be enabled. PowerTop is unable to enable USB autosuspend, so this issue is not resolved.
Seems to be a common problem http://
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This has been marked as duplicate of - webcam still powered on after closing cheese https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/bugs/ 363583 - which I believe is incorrect, as in the description of that bug, the webcam light is OFF until you run Cheese, you can also have the light go OFF by restarting the computer.
In this case the webcam is always ON and cannot be turned off.