I have an ASUS laptop (N82J), with which I am mostly pretty happy. Recently I decide I would like to use the built-in webcam. Apparently ASUS makes it a practice to install the camera upside down. Searching the internet I have found two potential solutions. One is to patch the driver, uvc_video.ko. The other involves pre-loading libv4l/v4l1compat.so.<div>
I have studied the patch carefully and it does reorder the lines of the video buffer but the image displayed is still upside down. I'm using cheese to test this.</div><div>To be honest, I don't really understand the other method as the applications using the webcam don't link v4l1compat.so But in any case it doesn't work for all applications.</div>
<div>For google talk I tried the suggestion to preload the .so and the google plugin in the background before starting chrome. Well, google talk still worked but the image was still upside down.</div><div><br></div><div>I am perplexed and short of ideas. And I don't think holding the laptop upside down will work.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Richard Harke</div>