how to enable the laptop's web camera in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

What make and model laptop?
Does the camera show in cheese?

It's a EKT mini laptop model GL-1201, Intel Atom N455 Processor, 2GB DDR3 Ram Memory, 320 GB HDD, LCD 10.1" Monitor, and had Windows 7 natively installed (now erased). It features a built in web camera.
Please excuse my ignorance but what do mean by cheese? Is this an application that I can install?

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I have just installed cheese but the camera doesn't appear. I also pressed Fn+F1, which are the keys that enable the web camera but nothing happens.

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Correction: I meant Fn+F10. These are the keys that enable the web camera. but nothing happens. With cheese I only get a dark screen.

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> I have just installed cheese but the camera doesn't appear. I also
> pressed Fn+F1, which are the keys that enable the web camera but nothing
> happens.
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Problem solved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The problem was that The room I'm in is darl. Thank you very much.

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> Your question #237656 on Ubuntu changed:
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> You gave more information on the question:
> Correction: I meant Fn+F10. These are the keys that enable the web
> camera. but nothing happens. With cheese I only get a dark screen.
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> > I have just installed cheese but the camera doesn't appear. I also
> > pressed Fn+F1, which are the keys that enable the web camera but nothing
> > happens.
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Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

I have also prob with camara
cheese also does not found camara

when i use terminal and write cheese below error is shown
** Message: cheese-application.vala:291: Error during camera setup: No device found

(cheese:24745): cheese-CRITICAL **: cheese_camera_device_get_device_node: assertion 'CHEESE_IS_CAMERA_DEVICE (device)' failed

(cheese:24745): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_new_string: assertion 'string != NULL' failed

(cheese:24745): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_settings_schema_key_type_check: assertion 'value != NULL' failed

(cheese:24745): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_get_type_string: assertion 'value != NULL' failed

(cheese:24745): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_settings_se int_value: key 'camera' in 'org.gnome.Cheese' expects type 's', but a GVariant of type '(null)' was given

** (cheese:24745): CRITICAL **: cheese_preferences_dialog_setup_resolutions_for_device: assertion 'device != NULL' failed

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I have lenove z50 , 8 GB RAM ,1 TB hard disk , intel i5 4th generation

oh its solved

Partial function key functionality can be fixed by doing the following:

1. Open up the Terminal application. (Ctrl+Alt+T)

2. Open your grub configuration file for editing as root:

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

3. Change the line that reads:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

to read:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_osi="

4. Save the file and exit the text editor. (Ctrl+O <Enter> then Ctrl+X)

5. Update grub:

sudo update-grub

6. Restart/Reboot your computer.

Vatsal H. Gor:

You are just amazing. I have a MSI U270 AMD netbook for 2-3 years. My webcam was not working with guvcview, cheese and skype. There was no dev/video. I follow your steps because my function keys was not working too... and my webcam is now working! It was switched off for all time.

Many, many, many thx for you!

The solution posted by Vatsal H. Gor (Comment #9) also worked for my HP Probook 450 with Ubuntu 14.04. Thank you!

The solution posted by Vatsal H. Gor (Comment #9) also worked for MSI GE60 2PC Apache with ubuntu 14.04.

Thanks!

In my Comment#11, I said that the solution posted by Vatsal H. Gor worked for me and my HP Probook 450 with Ubuntu 14.04. That was true for a while, but now I find the camera has stopped working in Ubuntu. When I boot into Windows on the same machine, the camera works. Can anyone help me?! I got this output from a uvcvideo command:

$ dmesg | grep uvcvideo
[ 20.392021] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device HP HD Webcam (04ca:7032)
[ 20.394751] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[ 24.575647] Modules linked in: snd_hda_codec_hdmi uvcvideo videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_memops videobuf2_core videodev x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp coretemp radeon arc4 ath9k i915 ath9k_common kvm_intel ttm ath9k_hw drm_kms_helper ath snd_hda_codec_idt mac80211 snd_hda_intel kvm crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul snd_hda_codec cfg80211 drm snd_hwdep snd_pcm ghash_clmulni_intel snd_page_alloc aesni_intel snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event aes_x86_64 snd_rawmidi lrw snd_seq snd_seq_device gf128mul snd_timer glue_helper parport_pc ath3k hp_accel ppdev btusb lp ablk_helper cryptd bluetooth parport snd rtsx_pci_ms soundcore lis3lv02d memstick input_polldev hp_wmi sparse_keymap mei_me mei shpchp i2c_algo_bit joydev serio_raw lpc_ich hp_wireless wmi mac_hid video mmc_block rtsx_pci_sdmmc ahci psmouse rtsx_pci r8169 libahci mii

Vatsal H. Gor's solution also worked for me on an MSI GE62 laptop running 16.04 desktop. Initially I didn't see any indication of change while cheese was open but toggling the function key and running "dmesg | grep uvcvideo" showed me the camera was being found. Then I just resarted cheese and it worked so need to thank Tom Colley too.