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Ubuntu 20.04 Can't Use Camera Without Sudo

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I have a USB Webcam connected to an Ubuntu 20.04 VM. I want to use the camera so to test it, I use Cheese. It shows a black box. So, I install guvcview but that also does the same thing. Only after running guvcview with root can I see a webcam feed. Why is this happening and can I fix it. I know that I was able to do it before.

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answered 2 Years ago oatglori · Accepted Answer

In VMWare, change your USB setting from 2.1 to 3.1. Your camera may only support USB 3.0

You can also reload the camera driver:

sudo rmmod uvcvideo

sudo modprobe uvcvideo