Acer Crystal Eye Webcam problem after update system - ArchLinux

[Sc00by]

hi
so...
i have got problem witha my webcam in Acer 7720 (Acer Crystal Eye) i dont know what wrong but camera work before (3-5 month) after update Archlinux, my camera was stoping in work... dont work 2 month (?) but after update again, start working again and working good in 3 month time... i do update every day, but camera work fine... but just to last week, i update again week ago, and camera deth again  Arch see my camera in control panel, in skype, and all aplication but dont work, looks like disconnected, but this is inpossible, because is connected all time, i think maybe about kernel faulty ?? but i realy no ide how i can check exacly what going on in my system, so maybe somebody can try help me ??

Thanks
Regards

[Joble]

So the camera doesn't work in Archlinux?  I wouldn't have any idea where to begin.

[cavibird]

Having Arch Problems ha??

You should try this Great Distro called PCLinuxOS!! 

www.pclinuxos.com

I just goofin of course. This would be the wrong forum to post Arch problems.

Try

https://bbs.archlinux.org/

Of course you really should give PCLOS a try My Aspire 532H Has 0 Issues in PCLOS!!

[jlr1001]

All kidding aside...

I've been using PCLOS on my Acer Aspire One netbook for some time, and the camera has been working...

That is until the latest update...  (I say latest because I can't confirm if it was the change to 2010 that killed my webcam, or if it was the latest 2010 update.  But it was definitely working with 2007 and 2009).

Skype says it can't find any webcam... but gscan2pdf will show it as a possible scanning device.

Let me know what log files/probe outputs will help make sense of what's going on.

Thanks,



-JLR