For anyone who is still having this problem, hopefully this will help you get your webcam working. I was able to get my webcam working and I am using a Dell Precision 7510 Laptop running Ubuntu 18.04.3.
1.) I issued "$dmesg | grep -i camera" in a terminal window and received "uvcvideo 1-11:1.0: Entity type for entity Camera 1 was not initialized!" which landed me here at this website (FYI I am still receiving that message and my camera works... as laurent.pinchart +bugzilla-kernel pointed out already it is a harmless warning). 2) I did a search for "ubuntu uvcvideo" in google and landed on "https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UVC"; which then pointed me to "https://www.berlios.de/software/linux-uvc/#download"; which then pointed me to "http://www.ideasonboard.org/uvc/";. 3) From "http://www.ideasonboard.org/uvc/";, if you scroll down to the bottom of it you will see a Downlaod section. Navigate to the "https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_Obtain"; webpage and follow the "Basic" User's Approach instructions. 4) You may be asked to install pre-requisites during the build process. I had to issue the following command "$sudo apt install libproc- processtable-perl". 5) Once build is complete, run "$sudo make install". 6) I installed uvcdynctrl as floe suggested. I don't know if this helped or not sorry... 7) I then found and example file to test if the camera was working from "https://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis/uapi/v4l/v4l2grab.c.html";. I saved this file and tried to compile it "$gcc -o v4l2grab v4l2grab.c" and received an error that it couldn't find the libv4l2.h header file. So i searched for it using $sudo find / -name "libv4l2.h" and didn't find it. This led me to believe that I didn't have the v4l2 development library installed so I installed it $sudo apt install libv4l-dev. 8) I searched again and found it! I then set C include environment path variable to point to the directory containing the header file $export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include/ and changed #include "../libv4l/include/libv4l2.h" to just #include "libv4l2.h" 9) Tried to recompile and got a linking error, so I issued $gcc -o v4l2grab v4l2grab.c -lv4l1 -lv4l2 and waula, it compiled. Changed its permssions to be executable $chmod +755 v4l2grab (using octal format where 7 in binary is 111 corresponding to rwx for owner and 5 or 110 rw- for group and other) and ran it ./v4l2grab where then I saw the .ppm files in the directory where the executable was ran from, but this was not good enough I want live feed. 10) I then installed v4l-utils and ran $v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 --list- formats-ext. This gave me the parameters that are compatible with my webcam for video capture (width=1280, height=720, format=MJPG, and device index=0). 11) As a final death blow I ran the following v4l2-ctl -V --set-fmt-video=width=1280,height=720,pixelformat=MJPG --stream-mmap --stream-count=-1 --stream-to=test.jpg -d /dev/video0 but only got a single image. I think you need to incude OpenCV. Anyways, I hope this helps you atleast get images off of the webcam. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1626731 Title: uvcvideo 1-1.4:1.0: Entity type for entity Extension 4 was not initialized! Status in Linux: Confirmed Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in ubuntu-drivers-common package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: [ 6.453850] uvcvideo 1-1.4:1.0: Entity type for entity Extension 4 was not initialized! [ 6.453858] uvcvideo 1-1.4:1.0: Entity type for entity Processing 2 was not initialized! [ 6.453862] uvcvideo 1-1.4:1.0: Entity type for entity Camera 1 was not initialized! ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10 Package: linux-image-4.8.0-14-generic 4.8.0-14.15 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-14.15-generic 4.8.0-rc7 Uname: Linux 4.8.0-14-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: caravena 2032 F...m pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC0: caravena 2032 F.... pulseaudio CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Thu Sep 22 17:20:51 2016 HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=360bd2d2-4f44-4311-86d6-4781ac81ee87 InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-07-26 (424 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha amd64 (20150723) MachineType: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. 530U3C/530U4C ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.8.0-14-generic root=UUID=4f4435ca-b877-47a5-9065-3dd624c0514e ro rootflags=subvol=@ quiet splash vt.handoff=7 RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-4.8.0-14-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-4.8.0-14-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.161 SourcePackage: linux UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 04/15/2013 dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies Ltd. dmi.bios.version: P14AAJ dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag dmi.board.name: SAMSUNG_NP1234567890 dmi.board.vendor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. dmi.board.version: FAB1 dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag dmi.chassis.type: 9 dmi.chassis.vendor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. dmi.chassis.version: 0.1 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLtd.:bvrP14AAJ:bd04/15/2013:svnSAMSUNGELECTRONICSCO.,LTD.:pn530U3C/530U4C:pvr0.1:rvnSAMSUNGELECTRONICSCO.,LTD.:rnSAMSUNG_NP1234567890:rvrFAB1:cvnSAMSUNGELECTRONICSCO.,LTD.:ct9:cvr0.1: dmi.product.name: 530U3C/530U4C dmi.product.version: 0.1 dmi.sys.vendor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. 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