Comment 42 for bug 269123

Hi all,

I found a post wich actually worked! :-)

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1182093

Kudos to noobi_agocs for making this work for me!
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I had also problems whit my webcam. I googled around the web every evening after work to solve the problem. FINALLY it works for me...

I have an ASUS F5VL series laptop, and i'm using Ubuntu 9.04

1.
So, maybe the most important thing is, that you need to download the stk11xx Syntek driver, BUT the 1.4.0 release! This is very important! I had no chance to install the 2.0.0 release...

Here you can download it: http://sourceforge.net/projects/syntekdriver/

2.
Then, I followed this HOWTO: http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/syntek

This is a french HOWTO (i dont speak french), but it's excellent. I followed it step by step, EXCEPT that I didn't donwloaded the latest syntek driver using the svn command.

Later I found an english HOWTO: http://www.zer0.net/2007/12/asus-syn...lation-on.html

3.
After this i installed video4linux using the command:
$ sudo apt-get install v4l-conf

4.
The last step was to add my user nick to a group that is allowed to use the webcam. The command is:
$ sudo adduser USERNICK video

Then RESTART...

After this i've tried the webcam whit: Camorama, aMSN and Skype. All of them recognized whitout any problem the webcam.

I hope this helps you a little...
Have a nice day! Cheers!

noobi
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After this, as usual, my cam was upside down. Just type this on console:

$ echo 1 >/sys/class/video4linux/video0/vflip

to make it permanent after reboot paste the above line on /etc/rc.local

Cheers