Thank you! You folks just are the best!

SOLUTION: https://lemmy.ml/comment/4084707 Follow this thread!

I noticed that my webcam wasn’t working and I thought maybe it had some driver missing.

(base) bob@bob:~
$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0c45:6363 Microdia USB 2.0 Camera

so I created a probe using linux-hardware.org app image and it found that I had this hardware component that wasn’t working. https://linux-hardware.org/?id=usb:0c45-6363 and it also has this in the website

Now, I searched for this exact keyword and found this driver lying around a little known guy’s repository called linux.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c

Now, I don’t know how to install it. So, how do I install this?

  • db2
    4·
    1 year ago

    Now type lsmod and see if the driver is actually loaded.

    • Ganesh Venugopal@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      hey lsmod gave these results

      Module                  Size  Used by
uvcvideo              131072  0
videobuf2_vmalloc      20480  1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_memops       20480  1 videobuf2_vmalloc
videobuf2_v4l2         36864  1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_common       73728  4 videobuf2_vmalloc,videobuf2_v4l2,uvcvideo,videobuf2_memops
videodev              290816  3 videobuf2_v4l2,uvcvideo,videobuf2_common
mc                     69632  4 videodev,videobuf2_v4l2,uvcvideo,videobuf2_common
usbcore               344064  6 xhci_hcd,cdc_acm,uvcvideo,btusb,xhci_pci
usb_common             16384  3 xhci_hcd,usbcore,uvcvideo

      I have listed everything which has uvc in it

      • mvirts@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        Watch dmesg when you plug it in and see if uvcvideo gets loaded. If not you may be able to add the device id to the list that uvcvideo will load for

      • db2
        2·
        1 year ago

        Now try

        sudo v4l2-ctl --list-devices

        Install the package it’s in if missing.

        • Ganesh Venugopal@lemmy.mlOP
          3·
          1 year ago

          v4l2-ctl

          hey, I slept off. it was midnight in India

          sudo v4l2-ctl --list-devices
USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam: USB2.0 HD (usb-0000:00:14.0-3):
	/dev/video0
	/dev/video1
	/dev/media0

          I installed v4l2-utils and did this, still no luck with the webcam

          edit:

          The virtual camera driver thing still shows nothing, but web cam is now working for discord. I thank you wholeheartedly! You made my day (this is morning now and this was the first thing I tried and it worked, it did make my day), thank you mate!!! But do tell me the reasoning behind what you did!

          • db2
            2·
            1 year ago

            It was troubleshooting, but it looks like the package I had you install was what was missing. The first thing in your screenshot references it so there must be something in there you needed.

            I would guess the ‘virtual camera’ has something to do with the unchecked 'advanced effects mode ’

            Glad to be of help. 😁