How to fix Sony Vaio Webcam driver for Ubuntu?

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My flatmate just came to my room with his Sony Vaio laptop and asked me if I can fix his webcam. His laptop is running on Ubuntu 11.04 and he was trying to video chat using Skype. But there is no video.

After few tests, I found that there is no Webcam driver available in the system. So as usual I searched on Google and found the following instructions that really worked like magic:

Enter the following lines (one at a time) in the terminal – you will be asked your password after entering the first line (the password entry will not show in the terminal but it is being registered).

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:r5u87x-loader/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r5u87x
sudo /usr/share/r5u87x/r5u87x-download-firmware.sh

You’ll get a GPG authentication warning but ignore that & also a y/n warning (enter y) after the last line shown above.

[Credit Ubuntuforums.org]