Comments on: getting the lenovo sl300 camera to work on linux

By: George

George — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:31:41 +0000

Kyle, thanks for this post. I also own a SL300 (w/ Nvidia Graphics Card) It helped me run my webcam under Ubuntu 9.10. Just followed the instructions you laid out on Jaunty.

George L.

By: Ramesh

Ramesh — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:48:11 +0000

Thanks very much Kyle for helping me personally using gtalk/jabber. Now, I have uvcvideo.conf file and the solution is persistent and works fine. Thanks once again.

By: Kyle Williams

Kyle Williams — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:29:29 +0000

@Ramesh
Hmmm…I have a few suggestions but I suspect it will be easier to work through them via gtalk/jabber. Add me as kylewilliams@jabber.co.za and we can troubleshoot the problem.

By: Ramesh

Ramesh — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:17:15 +0000

unfortunately, it didn’t work Do you have any suggestion? regarding, blacklist.conf.. I do have a file name blacklist.conf & blacklist as well!! Should I delete the file blacklist?

By: Kyle Williams

Kyle Williams — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:49:08 +0000

@Ramesh
Awesome to hear! I was just in the process of writing possible troubleshooting options when I got your comment that it worked

Let me know if adding the line to the options file works, it’s easier than creating the conf file. Also, your modprobe is complaining that you blacklist file doesn’t contain a .conf extension so I would recommend renaming “blacklist” to “blacklist.conf”

By: Ramesh

Ramesh — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:45:16 +0000

hi, I tried again and this time it worked!!! I deleted the file uvcvideo.conf. I unloaded the module with ‘sudo rmmod uvcvideo’ then then loaded like you said ‘modprobe uvcvideo quirks = 16′ & voila, I got my picture when tested with ‘luvcview’!

To make the change persistent, I edited /etc/modprobe.d/options – and added the following line “options uvcvideo quirks=16″. I havent tried if it works after restart, which I’m doing now.

By: Ramesh

Ramesh — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:17:51 +0000

hi, I am using sl-300 with Ubuntu 9.04 (clean install). I tried to fix my webcam but instead got this error message after running this command

ramesh@ubuntu-rocks:~$ cd /etc/modprobe.d
ramesh@ubuntu-rocks:/etc/modprobe.d$ sudo gedit uvcvideo.conf
[sudo] password for ramesh:

ramesh@ubuntu-rocks:/etc/modprobe.d$ sudo modprobe -r uvcvideo
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, it will be ignored in a future release.
ramesh@ubuntu-rocks:/etc/modprobe.d$ sudo modprobe uvcvideo
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, it will be ignored in a future release.
FATAL: Error inserting uvcvideo (/lib/modules/2.6.28-15-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/uvc/uvcvideo.ko): Invalid argument

Now, when I try to configure my webcam through aMSN, it says it cannot find any webcam, previously, I used to see light of my webcam (green light) but no picture now nothing. Runs well in Windows.

What went wrong?

By: Kyle Williams

Kyle Williams — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:02:20 +0000

@Kees Great to hear!

By: Kees

Kees — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:58:16 +0000

After following the instructions under update my webcam finally works! (sl300 ubuntu 9.4

Thanks!

Kees

By: Emidio

Emidio — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:26:55 +0000

Great.
It works.
Thank you!