Getting Skype webcam working SOLVED

[Aart Koelewijn]

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:43:49 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:

> I got hold of a friend with Skype and he was able to see my video! But
> after about a minute the picture would go blank. I could click on the
> blue button and turn off my camera and then turn it on again. It was
> good for about a minute.
> 
>     Another user thought his video didn't work because of permissions on
> /dev/video0 and I checked mine. It is
> 
> karl at karl-desktop:~$ ls -al /dev/video0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 0
> 2008-02-10 10:32 /dev/video0 karl at karl-desktop:~$
> 
>     Since I can't use the thing as root it must be because of the Group
> video. But I looked and there is no group video. What am I wrong about
> this?
> 
> Karl

Strange. On my box the group was added automatically and I was added to 
the group.

aart at mtack3:~$ less /etc/group | grep video
video:x:44:aart

If it is not there you should add it.

Aart