I have a notebook Dell Inspiron
Model 14 3437-A30
and in my gtalk appears that the camera is turned on and is automatically turned on, but the light is not on. Also, unfortunately there is no keyboard shortcut.
I tried to use the cheese
program, but it only activates the webcam.
I feel that my webcam is being automatically turned on without turning on the light.
How do I disable my webcam so the gtalk not show that my webcam is turned on? or how to make my webcam is not automatically activated?
Best Answer
Try to find the driver for your webcam and unload it. I don't have Dell Inspirion so I don't know what driver you have for webcam. Try to find it with
In my case it was
uvcvideo
. When you find it unload it. In my case the command was:After I removed it, the cheese did not find the device any more and it couldn't work. Then try to load it again. In my case the command was
If your driver is not uvcvideo replace it in the commands with your driver name. Make a test too to see that your application does not load the driver. It is a small possibility for that also because root privileges are required to load kernel modules.