Comment 13 for bug 219252

I have same issue with Intrepid on VAIO-FZ160E laptop. I have dual boot with Vista and Intrepid. Right after fresh install, my camera work fine. But after a few reboots, once in a while embedded (motion eye) camera stopped working at Cheese or Skype. It gave "No Camera found" and /dev/video0 is missing.

Even though I can always see Ricoh driver in my lsusb listing. I rebooted several times but did not work. BUT, interestingly, if I reboot to Windows Vista and come back to Intrepid my camera started working.

$ lsusb
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 05ca:1837 Ricoh Co., Ltd
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 047d:1048 Kensington
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

$uname -a
Linux mizzima 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 19:33:20 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
( this is the information right after I installed linux-backports-modules-intrepid package today)