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Comment on Lenovo Integrated Camera again working on Windows 7 by Klaus

Klaus — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:01:34 +0000

The camera on my brand new W520 wasn’t working and not showing up in the device manager (win 7 x64). Activating the camera with Fn+F6 wasn’t working either.
Had to call Lenovo support. It turned out, there was a hardware issue and the camera had to be replaced. The technician said there was either an issue with the camera module or with the wiring.
After replacing the camera, it showed up in the device manager and is now working as expected.

Comment on Lenovo Integrated Camera again working on Windows 7 by Kenneth

Kenneth — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:11:29 +0000

Lenovo’s own driver-package was utterly useless on my Windows 7 x64. Could not get the driver activated for the bare life of me. XP-SP3 had no issues…
So I stumbled upon this site and replaced Lenovo’s faulty driver with Microsoft’s own buildt-in ones and voilá. Perfect match!

Thanks Benjamin. Really hats off for this one

Cheers!
/Kenneth

Comment on Lenovo Integrated Camera again working on Windows 7 by Bert

Bert — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:24:21 +0000

First it worked then it did not…When my new company laptop (Lenovo 410) was updated to Win 7 SP2, the camera disappeared eg no longer was displayed via FnF6
I found the following answers through searching other sites. Device manager reported a problem with the device. The driver wasn’t signed
Reboot the computer. Press ‘F8′ during restart. Select Disable Driver Signature Enforcement from the boot menu. This fixed the driver issue in my case but has to be done at startup every time to make the camera work!!!
permanent disable driver signature enforcement (a security risk)
Open a command prompt as an admin search for CMD.exe, [right click on found file CMD.exe and run as administrator] and type

bcdedit -set loadoptions DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS

bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING ON

See security risk warning above.
If it doesn’t work for whatever reason you can just remove loadoptions with bcedit and switch testsigning off.
bcdedit /deletevalue loadoptions
then
bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING OFF

Comment on Do it yourself: home automation by Benjamin Schröter

Benjamin Schröter — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:45:36 +0000

Hi Andreas

actually I did it the way described here. When I find some time to blog about it, i will do so.

The first part of this stuff is running in my apartment now. All buttons are connected using the I2C digital input module and 16 digital outputs are switching my lights.
DMX512 is working but not deployed yet (will be used to control about 9ch of LED light (each ch with RGB+White).

Comment on Do it yourself: home automation by Andreas

Andreas — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:52:22 +0000

Hi Benjamin,
I am just on the move to recable my house and bring in some electronic houskeeping ;O)
I like your Idea, specialy the c# and dotNet part of it.
Did you finish the project or did you use KNX at the end?

Comment on Lenovo Integrated Camera again working on Windows 7 by Richard

Richard — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:48:19 +0000

You are a f’n genius. Have an x201 and the camera has nvever worked since the day I got the computer. Thank you!!!

Comment on Trackpoint Scrolling in iTunes, Thunderbird, etc. by dani

dani — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:58:09 +0000

thanks, finally helped me out. also applicable for other programs where trackpoint wouldn’t work (just replace the name of the .exe file with the one you need it for)

Comment on Lenovo Integrated Camera again working on Windows 7 by Bai

Bai — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:48:19 +0000

I do have the same problem in my lenovo 3000 N100 system. Tried all the way available in some forums. downloaded the drivers and get it installed…

Pls some one help me to get rid of this issue…

Comment on Creating a Setup with Visual Studio 2010 for an application that needs the full .net 4.0 framework by Genaro Garcia

Genaro Garcia — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:11:00 +0000

I’ve been struggling on this issue for the passed to days. This was a great help. It resolved the issues I was having.

A BIG THANKS, Benjamin…

Comment on Lenovo Integrated Camera again working on Windows 7 by min

min — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:38:12 +0000

i don’t have that usb video device in my win7