
We were particularly fond of last year's less expensive, more compact Spectre x360 13, which also added exceptional battery life to the equation. HP consistently delivers incremental but useful improvements to its consumer-focused Spectre lineup, and the 2017 edition of the Spectre x360 15 offered a great combination of features and performance in a pretty, reasonably priced package. This is surely more elegant than covering up the lens with tape. Two new Spectre x360 models, announced Tuesday, will be the first HP notebooks with a webcam kill switch, a physical button that cuts off power to the integrated front-facing camera to protect you from creepy voyeur-hackers. You can get the much of the same information with lsbusb -v but it doesn't concisely provide it the same way.HP continues to double-down on security, making it a primary selling point - even for consumer laptops. Module Alias: "usb:v1BCFp2B8Cd4714dcEFdsc02dp01ic0Eisc01ip00in00"ĭriver Activation Cmd: "modprobe uvcvideo"Ĭonfig Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Vendor: usb 0x1bcf "Sunplus Innovation Technology Inc."ĭevice: usb 0x2b8c "Integrated_Webcam_HD"ĭevice Files: /dev/input/event8, /dev/input/by-id/usb-SunplusIT_Inc_Integrated_Webcam_HD-event-if00, /dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:7:1.0-event Model: "Sunplus Innovation Integrated_Webcam_HD"
#HP TRUEVISION CAMERA TURN ON INSTALL#
That said use the following commands to make sure webcam is connected: $ sudo apt install hwinfo Other users in the link suggest other packages that work when cheese doesn't work. The solution was to use sudo when calling cheese. Webcam not working with cheese (unless sudo-ed).The cheese error messages are similar to those in this report:
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I tried almost everything and I don't know how to proceed further (basically am a noob user). Screenshot of cheese displaying black screen (cheese:6397): cheese-CRITICAL **: 12:11:20.318: cheese_camera_device_get_name: assertion 'CHEESE_IS_CAMERA_DEVICE (device)' failed

** (cheese:6397): CRITICAL **: 12:11:18.791: cheese_preferences_dialog_setup_resolutions_for_device: assertion 'device != NULL' failed (cheese:6397): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 12:11:18.790: g_settings_set_value: key 'camera' in '' expects type 's', but a GVariant of type '(null)' was given (cheese:6397): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 12:11:18.790: g_settings_schema_key_type_check: assertion 'value != NULL' failed (cheese:6397): cheese-CRITICAL **: 12:11:18.789: cheese_camera_device_get_name: assertion 'CHEESE_IS_CAMERA_DEVICE (device)' failed (cheese:6397): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:11:18.227: Theme parsing error: cheese.css:7:35: The style property GtkScrollbar:min-slider-length is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. I have run the following commands with output:īus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hubīus 001 Device 042: ID 0bda:57d6 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.īus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:b006 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.īus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub I have a HP Notebook-15-ac603tu and after shifting to ubuntu from windows, the camera stopped working.
