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[Raymond House]

Thank you Cranky, I will and I'll let you know.


On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 10:41 AM, CrankyOldBugger
<crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>wrote:

> I found an interesting idea dealing Linux Mint and Skype.  Sounds similar
> to your situation where Cheese works but Skype does not:
>
> http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/219
>
> Might I suggest that you do a "pretend" run through these instructions
> before you actually do it for real, in case you get halfway through and
> find a step that doesn't apply to you.
>
>
>
>
> On 9 May 2014 10:30, Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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>
>>> Freenode: cyphermox, Jabber: mathieu.tl at gmail.com
>>> 4096R/EE018C93 1967 8F7D 03A1 8F38 732E  FF82 C126 33E1 EE01 8C93
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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