After reading comment #6, I want to provide more details: 1) After upgrading to natty, I noticed that the camera was sometimes not recognized any more. It got worse until the camera was not recognized at all any more.
2) Since the camera had been continuously working under lucid (and b/c I rarely had hardware problems in the past), I first thought that this had to be something related to the version of the OS and first blamed natty. (Which is why I posted here in the first place.) 3) Then, I decided to study this further and booted into lucid from a USB stick and found that the camera was not working as well, at which point I started to consider a hardware problem 4) I started pressing against my laptop lid in areas surrounding the camera, and I bent the lid there. In some cases, I would end up in a configuration in which the camera was recognized. So I concluded that this was likely some problem of an intermittent/broken electrical contact. 5) Next day, I took the laptop lid apart. A piece of sheet metal holding the camera was deformed. This must have been from a previous accident which was professionally (but obviously not perfectly) repaired. I tried to bend the metal in place. I also took the camera out and played with its connection cable a bit at the connector. While the system was disassembled I booted up and found that the camera was recognized. I re- assembled the system, and ever since then, the camera is always recognized and working perfectly. 6) My guess would be that either the metal plate was shorting a contact on the camera board, or the electrical connection at the connector was bad, which got fixed just by playing around with it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/823011 Title: Webcam (0c45:62c0, uvcvideo) doesn't work with Natty kernel. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/823011/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
