[SOLVED] ACR010 QHD Webcam and Mint20 issues

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iiro_k
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[SOLVED] ACR010 QHD Webcam and Mint20 issues

Post by iiro_k »

Hello,

Im new to this so bear with me. Bought a new webcam, plugged it in and nothing. Did some trouble shooting but no luck – what am i missing here?

Following steps taken.

- Installed cheese which gives a message ”no device found”.
- Tried multiple USB-ports, but no luck.
- Tried VLC and in ”open capture device” -menu, it isnt showing anything.
- Tried guvcview and got ”guvcview error – no video device (/dev/video0) found”

OS is Mint 20, Kernel 5.4.0-90-generic.

The webcam in use is Acer ACR010 QHD webcam (no external drivers). It does show compatibility for Linux 2.6.26 and android 4.0 so i was hoping it would work on this too, but no luck yet.

So, what should i try next? Im out of ideas.
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Re: ACR010 QHD Webcam and Mint20 issues

Post by HAWR »

Hello liro_k,

for better support, some more informations are necessary. Please run the following commands in the terminal with plugged-in camera and post the results here (for better readability take the </> key above the textfield for every result and paste it between the two ][ square brackets):

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inxi -Fxpmrz

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lsusb

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dmesg | grep uvcvideo
Do you have a dual boot with Windows?
iiro_k
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Re: ACR010 QHD Webcam and Mint20 issues

Post by iiro_k »

Thanks HAWR for replying, started to go through those commands and lsusb showed a "Microdia ACR010 USB Webcam" which it did not show yesterday. Only thing i did was update the kernel and restart the computer in between.

So this is Solved
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Re: [SOLVED] ACR010 QHD Webcam and Mint20 issues

Post by HAWR »

Hello liro_k,

it's good, that your problem could be solved so easily. :)
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