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kleinfreund
Asked: 2015-02-16 09:19:51 +0800 CST

Can't enable integrated webcam with function keys or via BIOS

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I'm on 14.04 and I can't activate the integrated webcam on my Medion Akoya P6630 laptop. Usually, this is done with Fn+F9, but this does not work. Other function key combinations (Sleep, Brightness, Volume, ...) work, though.

This is a dual boot installation. However, I can't enable the camera inside Windows, since the harddrive/partition is toast. The camera is listed as LAST STATE in my BIOS. The other option is DISABLED. That means I can't enable it from there, either.

Neither Cheese nor Skype recognize a webcam device. Are there other ways I could try to enable the webcam?

What else did I try:

  • Setting GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet acpi_osi=" in /etc/default/grub
  • lsb_release -a; uname -a; lsusb:
user@MACHINE:~$ lsb_release -a; uname -a; lsusb
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release:    14.04
Codename:   trusty
Linux MACHINE 3.13.0-45-generic #74-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 13 19:36:28 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Bus 002 Device 004: ID e0ff:0002  
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
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1 Answers

  1. 2 possibilities if you cannot enable the webcam under windows and do not have the exact model number of the webcam: (no, the brand of the laptop doesn't count: we need the brand/model of the webcam itself)

    Before you choose one of the solutions, take pictures of all your BIOS screens (or painstakingly write them on a piece of paper, or if you have an IBM-compatible printer, just take a print screen of all the BIOS screens)

    1. Upgrade your BIOS.
    2. Reset BIOS to default factory settings

    and then put your BIOS settings back to where they were before doing this, taking care not to touch the webcam settings...

    The other possibility (if the above doesn't work and not a software solution) is:

    1. buy a Linux-compatible webcam.
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