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It is almost certainly already installed (UVC is extremely common, and valid for almost all off the shelf webcams).
You can verify this by running:
If not you need to compile the kernel module. Instructions for this will vary slightly depending on your distro. Here are some instructions for Debian (and coincidentally Ubuntu): https://wiki.debian.org/ModuleAssistant
This it? Is this not driver error then?
edit: This made me think I needed a driver. Last virtual camera driver thing
Now type
lsmod
and see if the driver is actually loaded.hey
lsmod
gave these resultsI have listed everything which has
uvc
in itWatch dmesg when you plug it in and see if uvcvideo gets loaded. If not you may be able to add the device id to the list that uvcvideo will load for
Now try
sudo v4l2-ctl --list-devices
Install the package it's in if missing.
hey, I slept off. it was midnight in India
I installed
v4l2-utils
and did this, still no luck with the webcamedit:
The
virtual camera driver
thing still shows nothing, but web cam is now working for discord. I thank you wholeheartedly! You made my day (this is morning now and this was the first thing I tried and it worked, it did make my day), thank you mate!!!! But do tell me the reasoning behind what you did!It was troubleshooting, but it looks like the package I had you install was what was missing. The first thing in your screenshot references it so there must be something in there you needed.
I would guess the 'virtual camera' has something to do with the unchecked 'advanced effects mode '
Glad to be of help. 😁
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