Virtual Webcam Fail

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Uwe Kaspers

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I have the exactly the same problem and the same configuation except my kernel is "4.18.0-17-generic"
The button "start virtual cam" has no effect except the warning in /var/log/syslog "Failed to start virtual camera"
Has anyone got a hint what to check and what to do?
 
Tuna

Tuna

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Do you have "pkexec" application installed? OBS needs that one to get elevated privileges to load the v4l2 module. If not you need to manually load the module.
 
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Uwe Kaspers

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Tuna said:
Do you have "pkexec" application installed? OBS needs that one to get elevated privileges to load the v4l2 module. If not you need to manually load the module.
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Thanks for you reply!
i learned that pkexec is part of the "policykit-1-gnome" package, which is installed on my system.
I now remember that OBS asked me for the root password on the first click on "start virtual camera". But nothing happened.
Anything else I can check?
 
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