With 2.6.27 this stills an issue. Upgraded from 8.04 to 8.10.a5 and then all auto-updates as they came.
$ uname -a Linux NolarBook 2.6.27-3-generic #1 SMP Wed Sep 10 16:02:00 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux $ dmesg | grep uvcvideo [ 13.500023] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Laptop Integrated Webcam (05a9:2640) [ 13.509776] uvcvideo: Failed to query (135) UVC control 1 (unit 0) : -32 (exp. 26). [ 13.509911] uvcvideo: Failed to query (129) UVC control 1 (unit 0) : -32 (exp. 26). [ 13.509914] uvcvideo: Failed to initialize the device (-5). [ 13.510200] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo After that, webcam still doesn't work (regardless of what the last line says). Doing "rmmod uvcvideo && modprobe uvcvideo" solves the problem. And it says: [ 6717.305615] usbcore: deregistering interface driver uvcvideo [ 6719.813625] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Laptop Integrated Webcam (05a9:2640) [ 6720.817158] uvcvideo: Failed to query (135) UVC control 1 (unit 0) : -110 (exp. 26). [ 6720.885163] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo After that it works. Probablhy the initial suggestion about blacklisted+/etc/modules will work. I'll check later. -- uvcvideo module randomly fails to load https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/241753 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs