I yam a newbie in ubuntu and trying to use my HP Pavilion dv6000 laptop webcam. It was working fine when i was using windows but i can't even access it in ubuntu. Please help.
Hi,
Welcome to the world of freedom. There is a very good lightweight program called cheese that can handle virtually every webcam. I have been using it for my dv2000 running Hardy Heron. You can get cheese by keying the command below
first of u need to give some info on the type of webcam u use .. does it come with your lappy? is it like the hp laptop like the guy above .. try and give a detail info on the webcam so we can know how to help ... about the cheese thingie .. try sudo apt-get update b4 u sudo apt-get install cheese .. what version of Ubuntu do u run
In the Beginning there was nothing which exploded ... yeah right
Submitted by Mukom mac TAMON on Fri, 2008-12-12 15:02.
Make sure u have enabled the Universe and Metaverse repositories [you can do this by going to Admin->software sources or uncommenting the relevant lines in /etc/apt/sources.list]
The do sudo apt-get updte then you can install Cheese from either Synaptic or the command line.
Re: HP INBUILT WEBCAM ON UBUNTU
Hi,
Welcome to the world of freedom. There is a very good lightweight program called cheese that can handle virtually every webcam. I have been using it for my dv2000 running Hardy Heron. You can get cheese by keying the command below
sudo apt-get install cheese
enjoy you webcam
Tata
Re: HP INBUILT WEBCAM ON UBUNTU
Hi tata, I typed the command but got
"E: Couldn't find package cheese"
Is there something I'm not doing?
Many thanks,
Sotonye.
Re: HP INBUILT WEBCAM ON UBUNTU
Could someone help? I still have not been able to use my webcam, and I seriously want to. What should i do?
Helpless,
Sotonye
Re: HP INBUILT WEBCAM ON UBUNTU
first of u need to give some info on the type of webcam u use .. does it come with your lappy? is it like the hp laptop like the guy above .. try and give a detail info on the webcam so we can know how to help ... about the cheese thingie .. try sudo apt-get update b4 u sudo apt-get install cheese .. what version of Ubuntu do u run
In the Beginning there was nothing which exploded ... yeah right
Re: HP INBUILT WEBCAM ON UBUNTU
Make sure u have enabled the Universe and Metaverse repositories [you can do this by going to Admin->software sources or uncommenting the relevant lines in /etc/apt/sources.list]
The do sudo apt-get updte then you can install Cheese from either Synaptic or the command line.