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Comment 6 for bug 897792

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In , Tobi (tobi-redhat-bugs) wrote :

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Description of problem:

After boot and after wakeup from hibernate the LED indicator on the built-in webcam of my ASUS F3 laptop is turned on.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

It has happened with all kernel (and other related versions) I've upgraded to for a few months, first in Fedora 12 and now in Fedora 13.

How reproducible:

Get such a laptop running Fedora 13 and boot it, or hibernate & resume it.
Or:

Actual results:

The webcam LED will be on after boot / resume.

Expected results:

The webcam LED should be off after boot / resume.

Additional info:

The LED can be turned off by enabling the webcam using some webcam software for a few moments, e.g. vlc or cheese. At first the LED will stay on when the software turns the webcam on, but the LED will go off when the software is closed. In this software, the webcam works fine.

This bug also happened on Fedora 12 (I upgraded a few days ago). On Fedora 12, I used the following workaround: `sleep 30 && modprobe -r uvcvideo && modprobe uvcvideo' in /etc/rc.local.

After upgrading to Fedora 13, this stopped to work: removing and re-inserting the uvcvideo module does (usually) not turn off the LED anymore. However, after the LED has been turned off, removing and re-inserting the uvcvideo module does not turn the LED on either (usually).