CrunchBang Linux

It did indeed come with Windows on it originally. Windows XP to be exact. I've since wiped it off as I have no use for Windows on this particular machine (the only thing I use Windows for anymore is Netflix streaming and gaming, neither of which this netbook can realistically handle). I've also wiped out the recovery partition because I have no intention of ever going back to using Windows on it. I suppose I could try making a live boot Windows USB key and see if it shows up there, that will take some time to do though.

As for the BIOS, I've already made sure the camera is enabled in the BIOS. I haven't checked the "OS Installation" setting in the BIOS, but I don't recall seeing one last time I was in there (yesterday). I think that setting may have been removed with one of the later BIOS updates. I'll check it to be sure though.

Finally, yes, the cam has worked before. It worked under XP when I had it installed on here (for the first few months I had the netbook). It has also worked under certain releases of Ubuntu, but not all of them. I want to say that it worked when I was running Arch as well, but can't be certain of that. I've also run a handful of other distros on it but can't really recall which ones it worked under and which it didn't. Sorry I can't be more specific there but it's strictly a problem of memory and never bothering to document when it worked and when it did not.

Also, as I mentioned earlier (though you were probably in the process of replying when I made the reply), I have installed the latest liquorix kernel and the camera is still not showing up.

I ran it without -t... but with -t I get basically the same thing. No camera shown

/:  Bus 05.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=uhci_hcd/2p, 12M
/:  Bus 04.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=uhci_hcd/2p, 12M
/:  Bus 03.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=uhci_hcd/2p, 12M
/:  Bus 02.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=uhci_hcd/2p, 12M
/:  Bus 01.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=ehci_hcd/8p, 480M

⎡ Virtual core pointer                        id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                  id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad                  id=12    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                       id=3    [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard                 id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                                id=6    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus                                   id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                                id=8    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                                id=9    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Asus EeePC extra buttons                    id=10    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard                id=11    [slave  keyboard (3)]

I assume here you mean lsmod, not lsmode... This command gives me no output, so I ran the following

sudo modprobe uvcvideo

Now lsmod | grep uvc gives me this

uvcvideo               45526  0 
videodev               25445  1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat            10250  2 uvcvideo,videodev
usbcore                98613  4 uvcvideo,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd

However, the camera still doesn't work and nothing new shows up when running the above commands

[10218.649148] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo

I will give this a try and report back. I didn't realize there was an updated liquorix kernel outside the #! repos. First time I've ever used the liquorix kernel.