I have an integrated webcam in my laptop. I know that it works and that ubuntu recognized it because at installation it asked if I wanted a photo taken for some kind of image associated with my account. When I look in system settings, I do not see any webcam in the hardware section. I would like ...
Run:
gksu gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
Add
blacklist uvcvideo
at the bottom. Save the file and quit the text editor.
Regarding the comment:
Find the vendor and device id for the webcam with lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05a9:2640 OmniVision Technologies, Inc. OV2640 Webcam
Nex...
I haven't needed, or used, my web cam since sometime in 2007. I don't even know if it (well actually any of the three I have) would even work on the new systems. They are all USB, but that's no guarantee.
@D.Hutchinson Someday, but not real soon, I might start a room myself. Not sure when, or even if, I will. And not to sure what site it will be connected with either. At the moment it's most likely to be CSE.
If someone gets too far out of hand, someone else is likely to flag them, and that brings in a mod from somewhere. And a summoned mod is probably not the nicest thing to meet with in a chat room.
Of course, a room is not a community, and wouldn't have a topic, as such, so the NCoC idea is only partly applicable. But the spirit of it would still work.
There was a pro-life / pro-choice / child support debate over at The Awkward Silence from a couple days ago that got really heated @GypsySpellweaver
I wasn't a part of it - I just watched ...
if I'm not mistaken, a moderator in that room told us the next day or so that apparently many moderators were actually monitoring that conversation ...
there's a small chance I am mistaken, and that instead the moderator meant another conversation was the one being closely monitored. but I'm pretty certain it was that one ^
The difference is that things like a ban similar to yours wouldn't be proper under a NCoC. If someone is unhappy with someone else's comments, they don't have to stay.
> Q: Why don't you care about my feelings?
> We are not a support group for human emotion. We are a community that strives to focus around our topics. Anything else takes away from that.
I've seen that room go around the world and across the board. Religion and (usually) politics stay out of it, and the rest remains sane.
On the other end, there is a room that no longer exists because the ROs and mods just couldn't keep it under control, and SE nuked it. I think it was on the SciFi site, but don't recall for sure.
Run:
gksu gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
Add
blacklist uvcvideo
at the bottom. Save the file and quit the text editor.
Regarding the comment:
Find the vendor and device id for the webcam with lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05a9:2640 OmniVision Technologies, Inc. OV2640 Webcam
Nex...
