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HP Laptop's webcam stopped working after FedUp upgrade!!

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – I upgraded from Fedora 17 to Fedora 18 using FedUp. FedUp for me worked great... no problems whatsoever during installation. After installation, got a few orphaned packages which I removed and updated to the newest ones. However, I did find out one major quirk.. my laptop's webcam stopped working. It worked out of the box in Fedora 17 but doesn't work in 18 anymore. I can see the LED light go on when I open Cheese but no image shows up. Taking photos or videos doesn't do any good either, as it doesn't save anything (I thought maybe it just doesn't show it on screen but the camera might stil (HowTos)

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Submitted by xiooo on 01/24/2013

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Now that Fedora 18, aka Spherical Cow, has been released, users of Fedora 17 will likely be gearing up to upgrade. Before this latest release, upgrading an installation of Fedora requires a procedure that’s not very elegant. With Fedora 18, the recommended upgrade tool is called FedUp (FEDora UPgrade).

Hi there. the webcam worked perfectly until last night. after upgrading to 11.10 from 11.04, it stopped working properly. I can get an image in cheese but the colors are wrong, it looks mostly black and white. and the integrated mic it has, which also worked perfectly, is no longer picking up any sounds. I'm using the 64bits version. thanks for any ideas

This forum refuses to post my full message, claiming there are URLs or words in it it doesn't like without telling me what's wrong.. please see it at http:xxpastebin.com/SqaKCx26

The summary is that fedup fetches metalink information that does not contain the "fedora-install-17" repo it's looking for.

Webcam stopped working in skype 2.2., it works in cheese, "system/preference/sound"(to turn on microphone) shows the webcam, skype "options/video devices" shows webcam- but 'test' just has a black screen. During calls, the other party sees my avatar image, I see incoming video. The blog/forum suggestions are mostly for Ubuntu 11 & 12.

I have on machine currently running Fedora 17. When I tried to use pre-upgrade to upgrade to Fedora 17 from Fedora 15 it failed because of space problems. So I installed Fedora 17 from a DVD as a fresh install.

In its current configuration, it has 43 GB available in /, 352 MB in /boot and 141 GB in /home.

Due to the number of issues I have seen with people upgrading to Fedora 18 using FedUp, I am recommending that everyone do a yum distro-sync after they upgrade.

Code: su - (root password)

yum --releasever=18 --disableplugin=presto distro-sync There are issues of packages not getting updated, and this is causing numerous different problems to occur.

Due to the number of issues I have seen with people upgrading to Fedora 18 using FedUp, I am recommending that everyone do a yum distro-sync after they upgrade.

Code: su - (root password)

yum --releasever=18 --disableplugin=presto distro-sync There are issues of packages not getting updated, and this is causing numerous different problems to occur.

I used FedUp to upgrade an old Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop (2Gb RAM, 500Gb SATA) from F17 to F18.

salute!

yesterday night I ran the fedora 18 update with fedup on my netbook (toshiba NB550D) today, lots of things don't work anymore. in detail: - first of all I'm confused about the naming of the new kernel - 'Linux 3.8.0-0.rc3.git1.fc19.x86_64' (I thought I'll get a .fc18.