{"id":1919,"date":"2013-10-15T03:10:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T03:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2013-10-15T03:10:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T03:10:03","slug":"disable-laptop-camera-ubuntu-13-10-saucy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/10\/disable-laptop-camera-ubuntu-13-10-saucy\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Disable Laptop Camera in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This simple tutorial is going to show you how to disable laptop camera in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy. Cameras are controlled by the <code>uvcvideo<\/code> kernel module, so all you need to do is block it from loading.<\/p>\n<p>After this tutorial, you&#8217;ll get a blank screen in Cheese:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1920\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/camera-disabled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1920\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/camera-disabled.jpg\" alt=\"blank screen after disabled camera\" width=\"560\" height=\"394\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/camera-disabled.jpg 560w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/camera-disabled-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">blank screen after disabled camera<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>To get started:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Press <u>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/u> on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command to disable the camera until reboot:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo modprobe -r uvcvideo<\/pre>\n<p>You will be asked for your password, and after typing it, if there are no errors shown in the terminal, your webcam should be disabled.<\/p>\n<p>To enable your webcam again, run:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo modprobe uvcvideo<\/pre>\n<p>If you want to permanently disable camera, run below command to block the kernel mode by adding to config file.<\/p>\n<pre>echo 'blacklist uvcvideo' | sudo tee -a \/etc\/modprobe.d\/blacklist.conf<\/pre>\n<p>Reboot your machine and done.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This simple tutorial is going to show you how to disable laptop camera in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy. Cameras are controlled by the uvcvideo kernel module, so all you need to do is block it from loading. After this tutorial, you&#8217;ll get a blank screen in Cheese: To get started: Press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[703,37],"class_list":["post-1919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-disable-camera","tag-ubuntu-13-10"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}