Well It has been over a year and still no practical solution...so don't keep your hopes up.
To Henrik, the notebooks in question do have the same camera model, from the lsusb command output. I bought them for my family members and I don't have access to them. When I do visit I do not have much time but I will try to patch the kernels again...tho not much of a point when a new kernels come out, only If i could somehow disable kernel updates on them...hm... I will see..and let you know. Lucky for me my notebook does not have this acer webcam model. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1433906 Title: Acer, Inc ID 5986:055a is useless after 14.04.2 installed. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hwe-next/+bug/1433906/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs