Camera on ASUS Transformer Mini T103HAF

Question

Does anyone know how to install/activate the native camera on Ubuntu 20.04 on this device?

https://www.gizmochina.com/product/asus-transformer-mini-t103haf/

Answer 1

Many device access problems can be resolved through group membership changes.

Specifically, if ls -l shows that the group permissions (the second "rwx" triplet) is "rw" (e.g."-rw-rw----"), then, adding oneself to the group that owns the device will grant rw access.

Here's how:

device="/dev/whatever"
sudo adduser $USER $(stat -c "%G" $device)

This allows you membership in the group that can rw the device, but there is one more step.

To make all your processes members of the new group, logout and login. Group memberships are set up at login time.

To create a single process in the new group (for testing, prior to logout/login):

newgrp $(stat -c "%G" $device)  

or, just type the group name. See man newgrp.