Omnivision webcam not working

[steve1961]

This used to work in pre-2012 distros 'out of the box' but no luck with any of the main distros this year. The cam is integrated into a Dell LCD and lsusb shows its ID as:

Bus 003 Device 004: ID 05a9:264a OmniVision Technologies, Inc.

uvcvideo is loaded but the device just isn't recognised -- cheese, skype, UCView and Camorama all fail.

Just trying Fedora 17 after a long break and I'm impressed, but could do with this working. Any ideas anyone?

[sindu]

1.You may experience these issues when the webcam drivers are corrupted or its settings are incorrect.

Visit the below link for more information:

http://webcamnotworking-fix.com

[steve1961]

Err.... that's for a windows driver. Linux modules aren't quite the same