Comments on: Webcam in Linux on Sony VGN-BX61MN

By: knobs

knobs — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 00:38:47 +0000

Great post. it worked perfectly, you need to put this as solved and posted to the ubuntu forums, a lot of people are having problems with this webcam. thanks a lot man.

By: Medik

Medik — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:01:51 +0000

i did as u said but when i use my camera the picture is flipped and divided :/ Any ideas what goes wrong ?

By: Ali3N

Ali3N — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:24:46 +0000

woow such a nice explanation ! Thank you very much. I am newbie in Linux so i am impressed And i LOVE LINUX !!!

By: Cihan Dogan

Cihan Dogan — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:17:31 +0000

it worked using mplayer without restart.

thanks. saved my whole day!

…by the way, it worked on my laptop, which is vgn-SR59TGz

By: sayan

sayan — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:36:13 +0000

Thanks a lot. It worked perfectly for Sony Vaio VGN-CR24G/B. Probably this thread is the most useful one that I found out on the net while fixing up the problem of the webcam in the laptop with Ubuntu 9.10 installed in it.

best regards

By: Giles Bathgate

Giles Bathgate — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:40:28 +0000

I appreciate your thanks people and would like to forward your gratitude to Alex Hixon who wrote the code.

By: Andrey

Andrey — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:10:12 +0000

Thank you! Now my webcam work!

By: Giles Bathgate

Giles Bathgate — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:11:24 +0000

Yes you can delete the r587x source folder from your home directory, after the module has been installed.

By: Isamu

Isamu — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:47:33 +0000

THANK YOU!!!
It worked! I’m new to Ubuntu and I have very little troubleshooting experience with linux and THANK GOD YOU POSTED THIS! Well appreciated man! I have a question though, it is safe to delete the r587x folder? I don’t know how linux installations work see.

By: Crasty

Crasty — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:24:34 +0000

In truth, immediately i didn’t understand the essence. But after re-reading all at once became clear.