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Re: Webcam under Cheese (Karmic 9.10)

 

My BIOS: v2.30 (im make one upgrade).
if I active compiz, brightness keys cause the system to freeze (I normally
have compiz off).



On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 18:35, Dan LeVasseur <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It might be useful for everyone to also list their BIOS version, that way
> we can nail down issues to a certain BIOS and also tell if there are fixes
> that can be had just by upgrading.
>
> 4810TZ Bios 1.3
>
> My mousepad button does not work also my brightness keys cause the system
> to freeze when Compiz is running (Visual effects at normal or extra) when
> Effects set to none, brightness keys work normally.  The Mic also does not
> work.  I get 7+ hours of battery life, camera works, CDRom works as
> expected.
>
> -Dan
>
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Gustavo Azambuja <gazambuja@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> I have 4810TZ with fresh install of Karmic, cheese 2.28.1, and webcam work
>> fine. without problems or hacks.
>>
>> Not work:
>>  mousepad disable button (but i not use this...)
>>  integrate mic (im waiting for this work...)
>>  also, not always, but 2 times in a week, my wifi stop working, and I have
>> to do:
>>   sudo rmmod ath9k; sudo modprobe ath9k;
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>   On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 17:11, Nick Glynn <exosyst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>  I finally upgraded (fresh install) to Karmic on my 4810T and was
>>> saddened to find that the mousepad disable button still failed, brightness
>>> controls still did nothing and the physical eject button 'disconnects' the
>>> drive in dmesg - I can accept *all* of that as it's still better than Vista
>>> but one thing that's miffed my partner is the fact that the Webcam is no
>>> longer picked up in cheese.
>>>
>>> Can anyone else verify this or know of a fix? I've also posted to the
>>> 4810T thread on the forums but no answers yet.
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>> Nick
>>>
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>>
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Gustavo Azambuja - Linux User: 275813
Sip Number: 1-747-132-7623
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