Thread: Webcam detected, recognised but no input in any application

hello dear ubuntuers.

i'm trying make external webcam work ubuntu 12.04.
actually camera belongs nephew turned, ubuntu see light and, me solve problems. used work fine (although nothing else did), after installing drivers, in windows.

tried many different applications
(gstreamer-properties, cheese, xawtv, skype 4)
, detect camera in

code:

/dev/video1

but the input in of them black / no input @ all.

brand name of webcam (turbo-x) doesn't matter, same device branded under many different names (usually under name of shop sells it).

code:

lsusb

shows camera recognized as:

code:

bus 002 device 004: id 0ac8:0323 z-star microelectronics corp. luxya wc-1200 usb 2.0 webcam

i found webcam uses gspca driver lately became kernel module.

code:

lsmod | grep gspca

gives me:

code:

gspca_vc032x           31999  0  gspca_main             27654  1 gspca_vc032x videodev               86588  2 gspca_main,uvcvideo

after googling followed advice try use older version of "video linux" driver (v4l1 instead of v4l2) ,

code:

ld_preload=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so cheese

gave me:

code:

error: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so' ld_preload cannot preloaded: ignored.

is there out there, kind enough, provide idea can stop me quiting on this?

in advance.

did ever work out? or develop workaround?

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