I have Ubuntu 14.04 installed on Surface Pro 3. The integrated cameras/webcams are not working. Applications that need access to the cameras cannot detect them and throw errors that no supported device has been found.
How can I get the camera of this device working on Ubuntu?
OK, so after a lot of hit and trial, I narrowed down the problem to the native uvc driver not supporting the integrated webcams. The solution is to build the updated drivers from source. Open a terminal and do the following:
git clone git://linuxtv.org/media_build.git
cd media_build
./build
sudo make install
Restart and you are done :)
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