Why don't they just work?
Well, some of them do, but not the ones that we had.
We plugged in a Logitech QuickCam in Karmic (9.10) for Skype video calls. Nothing is that easy.
Ok... so drivers. EasyCam seems to not exist anymore, so, so much for it being "easy".
Random Workingness
1. I changed the launcher for Skype :
System -> Preferences -> Main Menu -> Skype (Properties)
Command =
bash -c 'LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype'That apparently did nothing... UNTIL
2. WT decided to install cheese:
sudo apt-get install cheeseThe webcam not only worked then in cheese but also in Skype.
Maybe it was something in the cheese dependencies?
I later found out that part 1 was also important.
The built in webcam on the HP Pavilion DV6000 still does not work.
To be continued...
I just sent an email to Joe saying "I think this stuff is whymailbox blog-worthy. Then I go to our blog and lo/behold there it already is! wow. this should be a popular page.
ReplyDeleteI have an update on this: I just installed Lucid Lynx (new ubuntu version) and had issues getting the webcam to work with Skype (again). So, I remember it had something to do with Cheese so I tried that again, but this time it failed. So I did a big web search only to find out that the answer was on our own blog the whole time! the magic command line that you enter into the terminal is as follows:
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype
**NOTE! this part "/libv4l/v4l1" are not these bar things | nor capital I's! They are lower-case L's. That messed me up for a while. Be sure to use lower case but the following will help you read more precisely what you need to enter into the terminal:
".../LIBVL/V4L1COMPAT....."
NOTE 2: Make sure that skype is closed completely before executing this command because you don't want more than one instance running.