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[Raymond House]

Hi Mathieu, it's a nextech and it works fine with cheese and google hangout.


On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <
mathieu.tl at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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