I'm getting this same error now years later ... * on my old Sony Vaio * after upgrading from 16.04 to 17.04
dmesg shows: [ 1181.128100] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB2.0 Camera (5986:02d3) [ 1181.129834] uvcvideo: Failed to set UVC probe control : -32 (exp. 26). [ 1181.130748] uvcvideo 1-1.3:1.0: Entity type for entity Extension 3 was not initialized! [ 1181.130752] uvcvideo 1-1.3:1.0: Entity type for entity Processing 2 was not initialized! [ 1181.130755] uvcvideo 1-1.3:1.0: Entity type for entity Camera 1 was not initialized! [ 1181.133085] input: USB2.0 Camera as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.0/input/input13 [ 1181.133281] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo [ 1181.133282] USB Video Class driver (1.1.1) after rmmodding and modprobing uvcvideo ... no chance to get a v4l device in cheese, kamerka, ... when trying to manually install the driver that fits most likely to my sony vaio integrated webcam, it fails sudo /usr/share/r5u87x/r5u87x-download-firmware.sh #(the final command that installs the firmware - from the official ubuntu tutorial on webcams for most sony vaio) it fails saying Error: Failed to find any supported webcams ls -lisa /dev/video0 66245 0 crw-rw-rw-+ 1 root video 81, 0 Jun 15 21:04 /dev/video0 I'm part of the video group Any ideas? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/757074 Title: UVC video camera no longer works To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/757074/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
