webcam

[Raymond House]

Hi Doug, yes it works with cheese and google hangout. Thanks for clearing
that up for me, I didn't know if a different driver was required for each
system.


On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Doug Penner <darwinsurvivor at gmail.com>wrote:

> Does the webcam work in the native video applications (such as cheese)? If
> so, it probably isn't a driver issue. Since skype is proprietary, unless
> someone has had a similar issue in the past and been able to resolve it,
> you'll probably have better luck contacting Skype. If you do, make sure to
> tell them that the webcam works with other software (so they don't give you
> the run-around).
>
>
> ~Doug
>
>
> On Sat, 10 May 2014, Raymond House wrote:
>
>  Hi, my webcam uses SPCA561 driver and can't get it to work with skype, I
>> see on google that I could download this driver, but it's all for ms, could
>> this work for
>> ubuntu `14.04 ? I'm assuming that the driver maybe defective and wonder
>> if I download it, it could fix the problem ? I don't know much about this,
>> maybe it wont ?
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
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