web cam

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

What model?

Despite being recognized, some cameras (like the Microsoft ones) have
finicky drivers that sometimes just don't work. It's important here to
check the model, see in dmesg if the driver complains, etc.


Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu.tl at gmail.com>
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On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, yes the camera is being recognized, it says ' generic digital camera "
> but nothing in the test window it's black.
>
>
> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 10:19 AM, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Is the camera just not being recognised, or are you getting an error
>> message?  If the latter, what is the error?
>>
>> If the camera is not being recognised, can you turn it on before you start
>> Skype then try to get Skype to see it while it's running?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 9 May 2014 07:22, Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi, I posted a request for info about getting a webcam to work on skype
>>> with my pc running ubuntu 14.04 and unity and I tried all the tips in ubuntu
>>> help to no avail, my 2 daughters are also using ubuntu 14.04 on their
>>> laptops and they have no problems with skype, can I assume that the camera
>>> type is the problem for me? It is not listed in ubuntu wiki skype webcams
>>> list. thanks
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