I Looked in the Bios for my wife’s machine, and hers did not have a webcam setting(on/off). But I did find that her machine is using CSM instead of UEFI.
I know if I change from CSM to UEFI Win10 will no longer work.(It was upgraded to Win10 from Win7 long before Leap Was installed.
I suppose win7 didn’t have a UEFI mode. I Don’t know.
But will Leap still boot.
I surely don’t want to mess up her being able to use Leap!
I’ve not been able to find if changing to UEFI will put the webcam in the system configuration.in the BIOS. (anyone know?)
basically I am asking if I change her machine to UEFI WILL Leap still be recognized?
or will I have to reinstall Leap?
(Win10 will NOT be usable if I do that, but no big deal, she hasn’t used Win10 since I put Leap on it)
Her laptop is currently booting with Grub2 with bios set to CSM.
That machine came to us with Win7 and was already using CSM.
My S70-A Toshiba laptop(same era) came with Win8 and has always used UEFI.
(Unless it has grub2-efi during Leap install by default, it is also booting afaik with grub2).
you are probably correct that it will not ‘turn the webcam on’, but worth investigating.
That might set it up to boot with UEFI after you switch. If not, then a reinstall might be the easiest plan.
My S70-A Toshiba laptop(same era) came with Win8 and has always used UEFI.
(Unless it has grub2-efi during Leap install by default, it is also booting afaik with grub2).
If you boot the installer with CSM, it sets up “grub2” to boot. But if you boot the installer with UEFI, then it sets up “grub2-efi” to manage the booting. You probably booted the installer with UEFI on that system.
To save time, lsusb & lspci from my wife’s machine,
**lsusb
**Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 2687:fb01
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 046d:c52f Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0bda:c811 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
** lspci **
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor DRAM
Controller (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core
processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset
Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216
Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family
USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family
High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family PCI
Express Root Port 1 (rev c4)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset
Family PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev c4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family PCI
Express Root Port 4 (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family
USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM70 Express Chipset LPC
Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family
6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family SMBus
Controller (rev 04)
02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188EE
Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR8162 Fast Ethernet (rev 10)
Also ‘cheese’ and 2 other camera applications can’t find the camera. It is physically there. I just have to find it and enable it
It is not reported in the lsusb output, so no power to the hardware or completely inhibited somehow. I know that you mentioned having checked the UEFI BIOS already… (assume you checked under System Configuration > Web Camera?). No function key (or similar) for disabling the device? Does the device function in Windows? Perhpas it needs to be enabled there first (and left that way).
Sorry my bad(again).
That machine is using CSM, and I am fearful of changing it to UEFI just to see if webcam shows up under ‘Advanced>>System Configuration’ like it does on my UEFI laptop.
I have looked at every section of that CSM BIOS and no webcam or camera shows up anywhere.
I can’t imagine even Toshiba building in a camera and it not being available somehow (yes, I have visited their support site), NADA from them, and they don’t answer questions.
I actually thought I had made it clear in that other thread that her camera was not showing up (guess I should revisit that thread to see how much I left out, again)
OrsoBruno , got me a long way on my machine, and I am thankful to him!
Again sorry, another my ‘my bad’.
I’ll just shut up. Maybe buy an external webcam and be done with it.
I check that before I came here. No camera found in device manager.
If she still wants one I will buy an external USB webcam. Beginning to be not worth the effort trying to get Toshiba’s junk working.
I just asked thinking maybe a ‘switch’ for it would show up under UEFI. I know compatibility mode(CSM) can get weird in some cases.
