Disable Integrated Webcam on Ubuntu – Step-by-Step Guide

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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

lsmod

In my case it was uvcvideo. When you find it unload it. In my case the command was:

sudo rmmod uvcvideo

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

sudo modprobe uvcvideo

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.

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