ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 30, Issue 94

[John Dangler]

On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 03:05 +0800, swordfish.cn at gmail.com wrote:
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 06:59:38 -0500
> > From: John Dangler <jdangler at atlantic.net>
> > Subject: upgrades
> > To: Ubuntu User List <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > Message-ID: <1171108778.7487.2.camel at croatus>
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> > 
> > Well, I got past my cold feet and refreshed my desktop system to a fresh
> > Edgy install.  So, I'm on 6.10 (at least on one box)...
> > 
> > For some reason, the only app not working so far is camorama. It
> > recognizes the webcam, but only delivers a dark gray box on the display.
> > I seem to recall seeing this somewhere in the list some time back, but
> > can't find it... Anyone remember what fixed that?
> 
> Well, I saw your mail and I try my CAMSTREAM in a terminal so that I can
> figure out what is wrong.
> It give out "Fail to open device" at start up and give me a gray box.
> When I click File->Open viewer ... it works again.
> It is a strange problem indeed, maybe there is something wrong with the
> init step.
> Just give another try then.
> Good Luck!
> 
Same results.  I get the same blank screen in both Camerama and Ekiga...
Something may be up with the driver in Edgy...
>