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I've installed ubuntu 15.04 on my new Thinkpad L450. So far everything is working. But the Webcam does not seem to work, it is not recognized, e. g. by cheese.

$ lsusb

Bus 003 Device 002: ID 8087:8001 Intel Corp. 
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 5986:055a Acer, Inc 
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 8087:0a2a Intel Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 138a:0011 Validity Sensors, Inc. VFS5011 Fingerprint Reader
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB-2.0 4-Port HUB
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

The Acer device is supposed to be the webcam as far as I know....

Any Ideas?

Thanks.

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  • This issue is now fixed in Xenial / Yakkety -proposed kernel, if the verification task went well, it should be available in updates about two weeks later. I would suggest you to upgrade your system to Xenial to get it work. – P.-H. Lin Dec 23 '16 at 7:22
  • I can confirm that it is fixed now. The webcam is working! – sklingel Feb 2 '17 at 11:06
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I got this camera to work with a patch i received from the linux-uvc mailing list. See this thread here: http://sourceforge.net/p/linux-uvc/mailman/message/34181466/

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  • the patch is a bit difficult to spot within the thread - its called 'ignore_chining_errors.patch' ... – quirxi Aug 16 '15 at 14:04
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It looks like this webcam is not supported yet. Here is the bug report.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-utopic/+bug/1433906

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