@andres: on my L502x laptop, guvcview does recognise the camera - the output shows something like this:
... jack server is not running or cannot be started video device: /dev/video0 Init. Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_2HDM (location: usb-0000:00:1a.0-1.4) { pixelformat = 'YUYV', description = 'YUV 4:2:2 (YUYV)' } ... lots of information about formats is displayed here... vid:0408 pid:2fb1 driver:uvcvideo checking format: 1448695129 fps is set to 1/30 drawing controls ... Whether it works definitely is kernel-dependent, though. It works just with 3.15.7 (there are a couple of 'resource temporarily unavailable messages at the start, then it works), but 3.16-rc7 keeps compaining about the device being unavailable or the buffer being empty and I just get a black screen, even though the white LED comes on to show the camera is being used. The stock 3.13 kernel works for me (at least it did when I tried it in a VirtualBox VM: it missed a lot of frames but did display a picture). Even thought guvcview doesn't work with kernel 3.16, motion and Skype both do. Odd. Cheese still doesn't work with any kernel, which is disappointing. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1268359 Title: Dell XPS 15 Built-In Webcam: cheese does not display any image To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cheese/+bug/1268359/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs