Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Hot Webcam Problem Gone!


I own an ASUS A8JS, and one of the problems I had with Ubuntu is that my webcam was getting hot without it being used. Back in the day, when I was running 7.04, I could just run the following command in the terminal:

sudo modprobe -r gspca
Then the problem disappeared! Unfortunately, after I upgraded, the problem could no longer be fixed by that line. It bothered me but it was not of great concern, so I just let it slide. Currently, however, I have been taking my laptop to class and taking notes, and the hot webcam was draining my battery. I decided to give it a shot again and what do you know...It works!!!
The command was a bit different this time:
sudo modprobe -r gspca_vc032x
That did the magic, so if you have this same problem, give it a shot again; it may just work.

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