Ubuntu – webcam not working in 13.04

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I'm running 13.04 (64-bit version) but my webcam (Microsoft Lifecam NX-3000) stopped working when I upgraded. I downloaded the 32-bit drivers which fixed it for a while but now it's not recognised in Skype, Cheese or VLC.

Here's the output of lsusb:

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 045e:0721 Microsoft Corp. LifeCam NX-3000 (UVC-compliant)

And here's dmesg | grep uvcvideo:

[   16.552513] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Microsoft LifeCam NX-3000 (045e:0721)
[   16.553854] uvcvideo: UVC non compliance - GET_DEF(PROBE) not supported. Enabling workaround.
[   16.554225] uvcvideo: Failed to query (129) UVC probe control : -32 (exp. 26).
[   16.554234] uvcvideo: Failed to initialize the device (-5).
[   16.554996] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo

Best Answer

I got mine working as follows in (13.10):

echo 'options uvcvideo quirks=0x100' | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/uvcvideo.conf

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