The webcam on the laptop does not work

leo_skil

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Hi all!

root@USS:~# ls -l /dev/ | grep video

crw-rw—- 1 root video 29, 0 окт 19 15:08 fb0

root@USS:~#

When you start the cheese program, the program displays a black screen and says “devices not found”

My webcam is built into my laptop. I'm using the latest version of Ubuntu.

Today, for a few tens of seconds, the webcam started working (via a browser through the desired site, where I just need it)

What can I do to make the camera work?
 


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And the make and model of your laptop is?...
 
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Using ChatGPT, I was able to find out that to turn on the camera it was necessary to press the Fn + F10 key (or any other F where there is a camera icon)

And it works
 

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Using ChatGPT, I was able to find out that to turn on the camera it was necessary to press the Fn + F10 key (or any other F where there is a camera icon)
This is more common on newer laptops & notebooks, its a security thing
 
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ok i wasted my time by not reading entire thread first le sigh, please mark this as solved OP so more knuckleheads reply to this
 


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